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" I also began to think of a motion of the earth, and although the idea seemed absurd, still, as others before me had been permitted to assume certain circles in order to explain the motions of the stars, I believed it would readily be permitted me to try... "
History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler - Page 312
by J. L. E. Dreyer - 2007 - 436 pages
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Science and Civilization

Francis Sydney Marvin - 1923 - 364 pages
...that some among the ancients were of the same opinion. ' Occasioned by this,' he says, ' I decided to try whether, on the assumption of some motion of...revolutions of the heavenly spheres might not be found. Thus assuming the motions which I attribute to the earth ... I have found that when the motions of...
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From Myth to Reason: The Story of the March of Mind in the Interpretation of ...

Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 374 pages
...circles in order to explain the motions of the stars, he believed it would be readily permitted him to try whether on the assumption of some motion of...revolutions of the heavenly spheres might not be found. This timid approach was disarming. So was the fact 130 that Copernicus did not reject all of the old...
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The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual ..., Volume 56

John Herman Randall (Jr.) - 1926 - 672 pages
...to explain the motions of the stars, I believed it would readily be permitted me to try whether in the assumption of some motion of the earth better...planets are referred to the circulation of the earth arid are computed for the revolution of each star, not only do the phenomena necessarily follow therefrom,...
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Classics of Modern Science (Copernicus to Pasteur)

William S. Knickerbocker - 1927 - 410 pages
...assume certain circles in order to explain the motions of the stars, I believed it would be readily permitted me to try whether on the assumption of some...better explanations of the revolutions of the heavenly bodies might not be found. And thus I have, assuming the motions which I in the following work attribute...
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The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo

Alistair Cameron Crombie - 1995 - 756 pages
...Tycho Brahe for the whole planetary system (see p. 187), (Diagrams re'Occasioned by this,' he wrote, I also began to think of a motion of the earth, and...the heavenly spheres might not be found. And thus, assuming the motions which in the following work I attribute to the earth, I have finally found, after...
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