Sean: Hey Nicolas!
Nicolas: Hello Sean. How are you? And uhm..why exactly am I here?
Sean: Im great thanks. And your here cause I needed to ask you some things. Im awfully confused about you.
Nicolas: Feel free to ask what youd like.
Sean: Alright, what is your birthday?
Nicolas: February 19th, 1473. And my real name is Nikolus Koppernik. You know me by my English name. But that’s okay.
Sean: Oh, cool. What about when you grew up? What was that like?
Nicolas: Well, my father died when I was young. So my siblings and I moved in with my uncle. That’s about the most eventful thing in my childhood.
Sean: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. SO then what about later in your life?
Nicolas: Well, in 1543, I wrote a book called “On the Revolution of Celestial Spheres”. It had a lot of information on heliocentric system or the sun centered system which I invented. I also explained the retrograde motion. How planets moved and things like that.
Sean: Wow, you are really smart!
Nicolas: Hah why thank you Sean. But sadly, the church hated everything I said. They said the book is anti-common sense. I don’t know how that’s possible but oh well. I tried to explain how the earth moves 18 mps and it rotates on its axis at 8/10mps. The Church tried to argue that we would feel it, and I tried to explain, but they cut me off.
Sean: Well they sound nice hah.
Nicolas: Oh yes, they were truly angles. They also said it was anti- scholasticism, anti- bible, and they were completely against me. Doesn’t that sound joyous?
Sean: Completely and 100%.
Nicolas: It turns out that I had the whole set up of the solar system right except that I had perfect circles for orbits, not ellipses. I was pretty close though. I was the closest to the right answer in my time.
Sean: Well that’s cool. But I must go. That was very helpful. Thank you!
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