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To the spirit of Niklas Koppernigk, not “the timid canon” pictured by Koestler, but the canon who was courageous enough to place his belief in mathematics before the evidence of his senses.
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Goldoni, G. Copernicus decoded. The Mathematical Intelligencer 27, 12–30 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985834
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