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‟ 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.
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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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‟ 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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‟ 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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‟ The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
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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 also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
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‟ Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
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‟ Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
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‟ Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
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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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