From 660b8067c88eebe2bd04cafe1ab683ddad84a246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 0xb100d <25261452+0xb100d@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 17:50:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Create Copernicus - on minting of money --- Copernicus - on minting of money | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Copernicus - on minting of money diff --git a/Copernicus - on minting of money b/Copernicus - on minting of money new file mode 100644 index 0000000..abcf14b --- /dev/null +++ b/Copernicus - on minting of money @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Copernicus commenced a study composed for the Prussian and Polish governments around 1525, On the Minting of Money, with these words: + +ALTHOUGH THERE ARE COUNTLESS MALADIES that are forever causing the decline of kingdoms, princedoms, and republics, the following four (in my judgment) are the most serious: civil discord, a high death rate, sterility of the soil, and the debasement of coinage. The first three are so obvious that everybody recognizes the damage they cause; but the fourth one, which has to do with money, is noticed by only a few very thoughtful people, since it does not operate all at once and at a single blow, but gradually overthrows governments, and in a hidden, insidious way.