Author: Copernicus was a polish astronomer that constantly tried to prove heliocentric ideals by showing that the sun is the middle of the solar system not the earth. He is known as the father of modern astronomy.
Date/Context: 1543 is the date. This is smack dab in between the period of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment. These periods focused on reason and rationality. They were both intellectual advancements that developed the structure of European society.
Summary: When i say my beliefs the world and Christians will believe me to be against the holy father and will boo me off the stage. but i had a desire to know the motion of the planets with no prior knowledge besides that of previous mathematicians. Even those mathematicians are unsure of the motions which makes it so they cannot be studied or observed. They also use differing principals to related the sun and the moon to the other planets. it is believed that the symmetry of the solar system cannot be changed. I wondered if the math was irrelevant to the truth and led myself to philosophical beliefs in which i had forgotten and looked back through time after time. But after my studies i came to the overall conclusion that will polarities and such that the world is centralized around the sun other then the moon which has been so long an incorrect belief.
Important Quotes:
- Philosophers that by no means could agree on any one certain theory.
- "become so bound together that nothing thereof could be moved from its place."
Another quote to consider: "So I should like your holiness to know that I was induced to think of a method of computing the motions of the spheres by nothing else than the knowledge that the mathematicians are inconsistent in these investigations"
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