Feeling heard
Fundamental to our identity and sense of purpose in the world is to be counted as a participant in the conversation that is society or, at least, that is our tribe. Who are we? What is our role in the world? How do we view reality? And, perhaps most importantly, does anyone else understand who we are and why we’re here?
Certainty
In 1543, following Copernicus’ death, a German printer named Johannes Petreius published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). It contained Copernicus’ core theories. The document asserted what came to be known as the heliocentric model of the universe:
