A churchman argued the Earth moves — a century before Copernicus

In his 1440 work On Learned Ignorance, Nicholas of Cusa — later made a cardinal — argued that the universe has no fixed center, that the Earth is not at rest, and that the stars might be distant suns like our own. He wrote it more than a century before Copernicus published his heliocentric model in 1543.

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