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    You are hereDe revolutionibus orbium coelestiumMarch 21, 1543
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    De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

    The most consequential words in Copernicus's book were not his: an editor quietly inserted an unsigned warning telling readers its hypotheses need not be true.

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