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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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
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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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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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