Under the searchlights of the new learning, the dictatorship of Ptolemy appeared no more inevitable than that of Aristotle; advanced thinkers like Domenico Maria Novara (1454-1504) promulgated sub rosa what were called Pythagorean opinions; and they were eagerly and fully appropriated by Nicolaus Copernicus during his student-years (1496-1505) at Bologna and Padua.
Through Schultens too he got at Arabic MSS., and was even allowed sub rosa to take them home with him.
The sub rosa purpose is to form a nucleus around which a second empire can form, guided by the principles of psychohistory.