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"Near the sun is the center of the universe."
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"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."
"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."
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"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."
"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."
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"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."
"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."
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