The key to the Hermetic rebirth resided in attainment of gnosis, spiritual knowledge to free the mind from the bonds of material perception.
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
With a wave of his hand,
he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
Dava Sobel
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
