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who have evidently read his great book–are
very cautious in the words with which they
eulogise him, and refrain from attributing
to him the foundation of our solar system,
which is entirely due to Kepler. It is only
the more popular writers who give the idea
that a revolution had been effected when
Pythagoras’ system was revived, and when
Copernicus supported his view that the earth
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