Revolutionary.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

Publication: Smithsonian

Publication Date: 01-JUL-06

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IT WAS EVOCATIVE to be in Frombork Cathedral last November when archaeologists announced that the grave of Nicolaus Copernicus had been found ("Copernicus Unearthed"). I told the congregation that Copernicus was the first to show that a heliocentric arrangement was fully compatible with astronomical observations and that he had...

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