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cal theory: he merely sought to make it
more simple by placing the centre of the
earth’s orbit in the centre of the universe.
This was the point to which the motions of
the planets were referred, for the planes of
their orbits were made to pass through it,
and their points of least and greatest veloc-
ities were also determined with reference to
it. By this arrangement the sun was situate
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