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"Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe."
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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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