So Influenced By These Advisors And

Nicolaus Copernicus wrote this in the dedication to Pope Paul III in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543), explaining why he had finally agreed to publish after years of hesitation. Among the friends who urged him to publish were the Bishop of Kulm, Tiedemann Giese, and the cardinal-bishop of Capua, Nikolaus von Schönberg. The book was ultimately seen through the press by a young German mathematician, Georg Joachim Rheticus, who had traveled to meet Copernicus specifically to persuade him to publish.