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Suggest Revision: The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
 
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Suggest Revision: Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
 
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Suggest Revision: Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
 
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Suggest Revision: We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
 
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Suggest Revision: Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
 
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Suggest Revision: Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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