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moves and is not fixed.
It may be easy to explain the association
of the name of Copernicus with the Keple-
rian system. But the time has long passed
when the historian can support in any way
this popular error, which was started not by
astronomers acquainted with Kepler’s work,
but by those who desired to put the Church
in the wrong by extolling Copernicus.
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