copernicus was, indeed, a man of forty when Holbein was painting this Signboard in 1516. But copernicus was still interluding the active duties of Frauenburg's highly successful governor, tax-collector, judge, and vicar-general,-to say nothing of his brilliant essays on finance,-with those studies in his watch-tower which were to revolutionise the astronomical conceptions of twenty centuries and wheel the Earth around the Sun instead of the Sun around the Earth.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
Perhaps the most daring and courageous question of all time was asked by copernicus: What if man is not at the center of the universe, the reason for its creation?
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
Five hundred years after copernicus, a survey of the high school students in the United States revealed that a third of them still rejected his knowledge, still believed the Earth to be at the center of the universe and man was the reason why the universe had been created at all.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton