to fight againstit. Victims were adherents of heretical views, suspects of blasphemy and sacrilege,mainly scholars whose views and beliefs did not conform with the dogmas of the Church.(Adamczewski, p.157) Reactions towards Copernicus' views and theories had "arousedmush opposition and downright hostility" due to the inability of some to comprehendCopernicus. They were too "accustomed to hard-and-fast schemas" which was acceptedworldly then, written in the Holy Scripture, deemed as "immutable." (Adamczewski,p.147) This resulted in Copernicus' last years being dismal and De Revolutionibus "lainwell hidden." (Adamczewski, p.148-50) Nicolaus Copernicus died in Frombork on May24th, 1543. He was seventy years old and all that is know of his final years are hidden inthe shadows of Frombork Castle. (Adamczewski, p.154) Nicolaus Copernicus was seenas "...the man who set the Earth in motion." (North, p.285) "No Genghis Khan, noNapoleon, no emperor nor pope, has had a more radical influence on the history ofmankind than Nicolaus Copernicus...Of all the discoveries and opinions proclaimednothing surely had made such a deep impression on the human mind as the science ofCopernicus." (Adamczewski, p. 157) Giordano Bruno, who also suffered from theInquisition for his scientific views as did Galileo, had said that "Copernicus had not onlymoved the Earth but also set in motion the minds of men." (Adamczewski, p.161) "TheCopernican Revolution consisted in overcoming the view which had enormous prestigesanctified by centuries of acceptance as scientific knowledge, in taking up the old idea ofthe heliocentric system, in creating for this Inquisition as full and rigorous a scientificfoundation as was possible with the framework of the time...Accepting a threefoldmotion of the Earth and placing it in the row of planets, of moving heavenly bodies,Copernicus constructed a new heliocentric models of the world and laid the foundationfor a new vision of the unive...
