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no question of dynamical forces connect-
ing the members of the solar system, his
reasoning, as we should expect from such
a man, is practical and sound. It is not
surprising, then, that astronomers generally
did not readily accept the views of Coper-
nicus, that Luther (Luther’s Tischreden ,
pp. 22, 60) derided him in his usual pithy
manner, that Melancthon ( Initia doctrinae
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