"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.“


-Nicolaus Copernicus

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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

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