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Rome, to whom he explained his discover-
ies.
He thought that these discoveries proved
the truth of the Copernican theory of the
Earth’s motion; and he urged this view on
friends and foes alike. Although in frequent
correspondence with Kepler, he never al-
luded to the New Astronomy, and wrote to
him extolling the virtue of epicycles. He
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