absurd projection of a modern understanding of nationality onto Renaissance people, who identified with their home territories rather than with a nation(English)
Taking everything into consideration, there is good reason to regard him both as a German and as a Pole: and yet, in the sense that modern nationalists understand it, he was neither(English)
In establishing close contact with Novara, Copernicus met, perhaps for the first time in his life, a mind that dared to challenge the authority of [Ptolemy](English)
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