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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.

The publication of Copernicus’ model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.

Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money – a key concept in economics – and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham’s law.

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Sometimes I Wonder About This

Cada vez soy más consciente de que uno se convierte en lo que mira, en lo que recuerda, en lo que anhela, en lo que transmite. Ahora sé que el futuro comienza hoy y depende de lo que elijo ver, de lo que me permito decir, de lo que quiero recordar y de lo que decido amar.

Laura Esquivel  (via hachedesilencio)

Portraits

by Ashkan Honarvar

No importó si no había agua, no importó si no nos embriagábamos a morir, no importó el sol tres horas en la cara ni la lluvia en el regreso, lo que importó fue que estábamos los cuatro.

Chaos poetry

Ordinary Love, U2