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been necessary to devote perhaps undue space
to the interesting work of Copernicus, be-
cause by a curious chance his name has be-
come so widely known. He has been spo-
ken of very generally as the founder of the
solar system that is now accepted. This
seems unfair, and on reading over what has
been written about him at different times it
will be noticed that the astronomers–those
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