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<p>Edizione originale, in cui il Calcagnini postula la rotazione giornaliera della terra; <span style="font-variant: small-caps">Thorndike</span> V, 409 suggerisce: «He perhaps had got wind of the teaching of Copernicus on a trip to Poland in 1518 [...] Whether or not Calcagnini received any suggestion, direct or indirect, consciously or unconsciously, from Copernicus, his letters show that the idea of a moving earth was spreading and that the way was being paved and men’s minds were being prepared for the appearance of <em>De revolutionibus</em>».</p>