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be occupied with the planets, and to in-
quire about their distances from the earth,
and their orbits, and the causes of their mo-
tions, he strongly objected to such a waste
of valuable time. He dwelt on the contradic-
tions and conflicting opinions of the phys-
ical philosophers, ... and, in fine, he held
that the speculators on the universe and on
the laws of the heavenly bodies were no bet-
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