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AT the meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, held at Burlington House on May 14, Prof. Herbert Dingle gave an address on Copernicus, which supplements in some respects the article by Dr. Spencer Jones printed above. It is not generally known that Copernicus attained some proficiency in languages and even published a translation from Greek into Latin of the poems of Theophylactus Simocatta. He possessed some artistic skill, and the famous clock tower of the cathedral at Strasbourg contains a copy by other hands of his self-portrait.
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THE WORK OF COPERNICUS. Nature 151, 576–577 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151576a0
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