Our Medical Heritage

Copernicus, Medicine, and the Heliocentric Concept

Authors: JOSEPH M. MILLER MD

Abstract

ABSTRACTWith his back to the academically poorly oriented times of medieval Europe, Copernicus, the medical man, led the world into a concept of infinite space. His revolutionary concepts of astrophysics formed a buttress for the efforts of his successors. He looked to the stars, but he also had time to look at and help man.

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