1543. The Renaissance was transforming the way people thought about both art and science, and Nicolaus Copernicus published a book called De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. On the revolution of the celestial spheres. Why is this relevant? Copernicus was one of the first humans ever to realise that the whole world didn’t revolve around him. To the most learned and educated minds in the world, for thousands of years, we were the centre of the universe. Galileo Galillei was called a heretic for furthering Copernicus’s theory and teaching it, but I think he did us a great favour. In his own...
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