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Copernicus required a systematically integrated, physically intelligible astronomy.
His objective was, essentially, to repair those aspects of orthodox astronomy responsible for its deficiencies in achieving these ends.
That such deficiencies existed within Ptolemy's theory was not discovered de novo by Copernicus.
The critical, rigorous examinations of Nicholas of Cusa and Nicholas of Oresme provided the context ( a late medieval context ) for Nicholas Copernicus' own work.
The latter looked backward upon inherited deficiencies.
Without abandoning too much, Copernicus sought to make orthodox astronomy systematically and mechanically acceptable.
He did not think himself to be firing the first shot of an intellectual revolution.
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