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Copernicus

                
                


                                                                        
1972
                                                
IBM
                                                                                                                        
AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE

500th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH


Nicholas Copernicus was a learned, modest, and conscientious man. Never a priest, he spent his life in service to the cathedral chapter at Frombork, where he was administrator, legal adviser and physician.


But from youth his mind dwelt on the heavens.  He was an undergraduate in cloisters of Krakow University when Columbus set sail across the Atlantic.  Before the first ship sailed around the world, Copernicus too had made a pioneering voyage – a voyage of the mind that set the earth itself forever in motion.  “We revolve about the Sun like any other plant,” he wrote; “the appearance of daily revolutions belong to the heavens, but the reality belongs to the Earth”.


                        
                

                

                    

                        

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