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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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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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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
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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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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
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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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I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
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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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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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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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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
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