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"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
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"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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"The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow."
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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."
"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."
"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."
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