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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. "
Suit
Moving
Earth
" 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. "
Better
Art
Arts
" At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. "
Everything
Middle
Sun
" Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. "
Finally
Universe
Sun
" First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical. "
Note
Universe
Must
" For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. "
Daily
Place
Going
" For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. "
Opinions
I Am
My Own
" For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. "
Through
History
Expert
" 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. "
Judgment
I Am
God
" 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. "
Earth
People
Learn
" In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility. "
Earth
Bear
Important
" I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle. "
Mind
Since
Recall
" Mathematics is written for mathematicians. "
Mathematics
Mathematicians
Written
" Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. "
Sun
Whatever
Motion
" More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise. "
More
Certain
North
" Near the sun is the center of the universe. "
Sun
Universe
Center
" 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. "
Men
Fear
Mathematics
" Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. "
Stars
Things
Inspirational
" Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. "
Deeper
Ocean
Everywhere
" 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. "
Fool
Far
Accept
" 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. "
Hope
Long
Me
" The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction. "
Earth
Since
Center
" 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. "
Shadow
Perfect
Moon
" The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. "
Comparison
Size
Shrink
" Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth. "
Mobility
Opportunity
Sources
" Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. "
Together
Work
Earth
" 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. "
Me
Mathematicians
Look
" 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. "
Absurdity
Work
View
" Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. "
Obscure
Now
I Am
" 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. "
Who
Rest
Earth
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