Nicolas Copernicus And Christopher Columbus: A Comparative Analysis

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Each of the documents have similarities and differences to one another and to this week’s lectures. The first article “Nicolas Copernicus letter to Pope Paul III” is basically about astronomy and how Copernicus gets rejected by the church because he believes that the earth rotates, instead of being still. Copernicus and Christopher Colobus’s stories were very similar because Columbus also was rejected at a time because he wasn’t born into royalty and he taught himself how to navigate the world. “The letter of knights of St. John on the fall of Constantinople” and “A letter on the cruelty of the Turks” documents are also very similar to one another. The letter of the Knights document discusses how the Turks destroyed Constantinople and killed