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the effect of atmospheric refraction which
makes the altitude of a star seem greater
than it really is.
Tycho Brahe was able to correct the lu-
nar theory by his observations. Copernicus
had introduced two epicycles on the lunar
orbit in the hope of obtaining a better ac-
cordance between theory and observation;
and he was not too ambitious, as his de-
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