“Nicolaus Copernicus is the supreme example of a man who revolutionized science by looking at the old facts in a new way.”

—  Alistair Cameron Crombie

Alistair Cameron Crombie, Medieval and Early Modern Science (1952) as quoted by John Freely in Before Galileo: The Birth of Early Modern Science in Medieval Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=MfhjAAAAQBAJ (2012).

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