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the sun. To correct for these irregularities
Copernicus introduced epicycle on epicycle
in the lunar orbit.
This is in its main features the system
propounded by Copernicus. But attention
must, to state the case fully, be drawn to
two points to be found in his first and sixth
books respectively. The first point relates
to the seasons, and it shows a strange ig-
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