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Page 1: Does this preface look like a man trying to promote heresy ...east-of-rhine.kaniol.org/a360/copernicus.preface.pdf · Does this preface look like a man trying to promote heresy? His
Konrad Aniol
Does this preface look like a man trying to promote heresy? His uncle was a bishop. Copernicus was a canon. This was an administrative position in the Cathedral. The Church was looking for a better model to be able to calculate the date for Easter.
Konrad Aniol
What person in a sane mind would dedicate heresy to a pope?
Konrad Aniol
Page 2: Does this preface look like a man trying to promote heresy ...east-of-rhine.kaniol.org/a360/copernicus.preface.pdf · Does this preface look like a man trying to promote heresy? His
Konrad Aniol
The question should be what happened between 1543 when the Church welcomed Copernicus to 1633 when Galileo was condemned with “vehement suspicion of heresy”?�