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Nicolaus Copernicus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | He allegedly awoke from his ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand) stroke induced (A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury) coma, looked at his book, and died peacefully. |
| | Although not holding ordained office within the Catholic Church, Copernicus was devout and unwilling to be openly defiant of the Church's teaching, but, in common with supporters of the Reformation, Copernicus was criticizing orthodox theory and belief. |
| | His reasons for doing so lay in his dissatisfaction with the inadequacies of the geocentric model, in his strong belief in the truth of the solution to the problem that he developed, its elegance and relative simplicity, and its coincidence with observation and with the classical ideals to which he had subscribed since his youth. |
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