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hides the sun, and in a lunar eclipse the
moon enters the earth’s shadow–both ex-
cellent opinions. But he entertained absurd
ideas of the vortical motion of the heavens
whisking stones into the sky, there to be ig-
nited by the fiery firmament to form stars.
He was prosecuted for this unsettling opin-
ion, and for maintaining that the moon is
an inhabited earth. He was defended by
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