"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."

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"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."

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"The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum."

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"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."

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"Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."

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"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

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"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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"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."

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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."

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"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."

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"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle."

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

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