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There was nothing so startlingly simple
in his system as to lead the cautious as-
tronomer to accept it, as there was in the
later Keplerian system; and the absence of
parallax in the stars seemed to condemn
his system, which had no physical basis to
recommend it, and no simplification at all
over the Egypto-Tychonic system, to which
Copernicus himself drew attention. It has
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