RENAISSANCE -> REBIRTH

FRENCH -> ENGLISH

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“WHAT MATTERS IS THAT MAN RECOGNIZE
THE CAPACITY HE HAS TO LEARN AND SO
TO HUMANIZE HIMSELF TO THE FULLEST”
Nicolas J. Perella, Italian Historian, 1963, in an article regarding the Renaissance
Humanism
NOUN
[mass noun]
1. A rationalist outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance
to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

Oxford Dictionary: Definition of Humanism

NICOLAUS
COPERNICUS
A MAN OF THE RENAISSANCE
By Will Motley
 Nicolaus Copernicus

DE REVOLUTIONIBUS
ORBIUM COELESTIUM

BORN 19 STUDIED AT NICOLAI KOPPERNIKIG

FEBRUARY KRAKOW,
BOLOGNA,
1473, THORN, PADUA AND
POLAND FERRARA
COPERNICUS WAS A RENAISSANCE
MAN BECAUSE HE DEMONSTRATED
THE QUALITIES THAT DEFINED ITS
SPIRIT
THE CHURCH WAS AVERSE TO
HELIOCENTRISM BECAUSE THEY
KNEW THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR
POWER
THE CHURCH PROHIBITED SCIENCE
AND LIBERAL THINKING AS THEY
DIDN’T WANT THE BIBLE TO BE
INTERPRETED IN OTHER WAYS
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“THE PROPOSITION THAT THE EARTH IS
NOT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD IS
ABSURD AND THEOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED
ERRONEOUS IN FAITH.”
Referencing the Catholic Holy Scriptures; The Crime of Galileo, De Santillana, G. 1962
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GALILEO WAS CONVICTED FOR “FOLLOWING
THE POSITION OF COPERNICUS WHICH IS
CONTRARY TO THE TRUE SENSE AND
AUTHORITY OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.”
Referencing the Catholic Holy Scriptures; The Crime of Galileo, De Santillana, G. 1962
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“AT REST, HOWEVER, IN THE MIDDLE
OF EVERYTHING IS THE SUN.”
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Copernicus, N. 1542
 GREEK: Geo |Centrism
ENGLISH: Earth|Centred a
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“THE CHURCH INSISTED ON GEOCENTRISM
BECAUSE THEY INSISTED MAN HAD TO BE
AT THE PINNACLE OF THE COSMOS.”
O’Neill, T. 2016
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“HELIOCENTRISM DIDN’T APPEAL TO THE
CHURCH BECAUSE IT DETHRONED MAN
FROM HIS EXALTED POSITION AT THE
CENTRE OF THE COSMOS.”
O’Neill, T. 2016
 FOR THE CHURCH,

HELIOCENTRISM = LOSS OF POWER AND CONTROL

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“THE PROPOSITION THAT THE EARTH IS
NOT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD IS (…)
ERRONEOUS IN FAITH.”
Referencing the Catholic Holy Scriptures; The Crime of Galileo, De Santillana, G. 1962
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS – MAN OF THE RENAISSANCE