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Georg Joachim Rheticus
(16 Feb 1514 - 4 Dec 1576)
German astronomer and mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Georg Joachim Rheticus (1 quote)
The astronomer who studies the motion of the stars is surely like a blind man who, with only a staff [mathematics] to guide him, must make a great, endless, hazardous journey that winds through innumerable desolate places. What will be the result? Proceeding anxiously for a while and groping his way with his staff, he will at some time, leaning upon it, cry out in despair to Heaven, Earth and all the Gods to aid him in his misery.
— Georg Joachim Rheticus
In The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler (1968).
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- 16 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Rheticus's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
