“What’s the date?” cried Nicolaus Copernicus' recording his first astronomical observation of heaven,
His assistant shouted from below the bell tower, “Sire It’s the Ninth of March fourteen ninety seven.
Three years later on the 6th of November Copernicus the Polish astronomer observes a lunar eclipse in Rome.
His assistant wearily calls up the stairs "The year is fifteen hundred exactly, it’s cold and I’d like to go home!"
Fourteen lunar years pass, Copernicus makes his first observations of what will be Saturn, oczywiscie, he is also a sage mathematician.
A now arthritic assistant, still serving him in his twilight years croaks, "26th of April fifteen fourteen," from a chilly sedentary position.
Sixteen hundred and sixteen, having completed his astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' facing outward, you could say convex,
Nicolaus Copernicus came full circle by the fifth of March with his publication foreclosed on the Catholic Forbidden index.
By A.McTiernan
