To be sure, heretofore there has been virtually unanimous acceptance of the belief that the middle of the universe is the earth.
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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
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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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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
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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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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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