Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes about Heaven

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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Stars, Aquarius, Heaven

Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Beautiful, Heaven, Beautiful Things

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Heaven, Doe, Earth

Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Moving, Opposites, Heaven

Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

Not only the phenomena of the others followed from this, but also it so bound together both the order and magnitude of all the planets and the spheres and the heaven itself, that in no single part could one thing be altered without confusion among the other parts and in all the universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Order, Confusion, Heaven

"On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.