A comparison of his work with the Almagest shows that Copernicus was in many ways a Renaissance scientist rather than a revolutionary, because he followed Ptolemy's methods and even his order of presentation.
Usporedba njegovog djela sa Almagest pokazuje da je Kopernik u mnogim pogledima bio renesansni znanstvenik, a ne revolucionar, stoga što je slijedio Ptolomejeve metode, pa čak i njegov slijed prikazivanja.