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After I had addressed myself to this very difficult and almost insoluble problem, the suggestion at length came to me how it could be solved . . . if some assumptions (which are called axioms) were granted me.

Source: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, 1543.
-- Nicolas Copernicus, (Feb 19 1473-1543), Polish astronomer; He was first to propose that planets revolved around the sun; wrote Mathematics of a Heliocentric Solar System, 1543.

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