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On 24 May, 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his death bed. He had been incapacitated for some time, an earlier stroke having left his entire right-hand side paralyzed and useless. For well over the last quarter-century of his life, Copernicus had been working on a new and a radical theory concerning the structure of the heavens, and finally, on the day of his death, so the story goes, his faithful helper George Donner gently raised the invalid astronomer so that he might see the first pages of his newly printed magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
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Beech, M. (2009). The Limits of the World. In: Terraforming. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09796-1_4
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