No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Coper…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). Emerson: Selected Essays, p.350, Penguin
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