Many centuries ago, a famous Greek had said something that for the time was incomprehensible: "Give me a lever and I will move the World"; and people asked themselves: Why move the World ?, And where to move it ?, If the planet we inhabited was immovable and was and would be for centuries of the centuries in the center of the Universe.
But it happens that in a Polish village, a young man was born who studied humanities and law, and eventually graduated as a doctor. And that young man with so much knowledge in tow, also became a priest. and as if that were not enough, he studied mathematics.
That young man, looking at the sky, discovered that everything was moving, that nothing was still, that there was no center and that nothing that in his time was believed was true.
This Polish doctor, priest, humanist and mathematician was named Nicolaus Copernicus.
And using "the lever" of his intelligence, supporting it in science, he moved the Earth from the center of the Universe, and threw it, in one fell swoop, into an unimportant lost corner.
The most extraordinary thing is that the revolutionary idea was exposed by a priest of conservative temperament, and also against what the official doctrine of the Church stated: that the Earth was the center of the cosmos.
That is why Copernicus published his theory with the name of a student of his, with whom he agreed, since the young student was not afraid to face the repression of the Church. The student, happy, took the book to his teacher Copernicus's house to see the first edition, but not all was joy: the young man found his teacher on the deathbed, and in those circumstances, he gave him the book that the moribund reached to look.
Hours later, Copernicus died, and he did it quietly, knowing that "one blow", nobody like him had caused so much impact.
Copernicus had brought the Earth out of the center of the Universe, and had turned us into a tiny speck of dust floating in the immensity of the cosmos and mystery.
His death occurred on a day like today, May 24, 1543.
