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the earth fixed. But he now recalled and ac-
cepted the views of Pythagoras and others,
according to which the sun is fixed and the
earth revolves; and it must be noted that,
geometrically, there is no difference of any
sort between the Egyptian or Tychonic sys-
tem and that of Pythagoras as revived by
Copernicus, except that on the latter the-
ory the stars ought to seem to move when
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