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5 . Had learned Tycho but minded this, andrightly considered how the HOLY GHOSTdoes all-a-long deliver himself in Figurative Ex-pressions touching the .Earth ; he needed not tohave scrupled the Copernican System of the World,and ( falling off from the old Pythagoric Hypo-thesis ) have erected a new one of his own,more intricate and less tenable ; in tenderness tothe Sacred Writings. For st Gajfendus gives that f J4- Apron.in, as one of Brahe* s Objections against Coper- llb -3- c »P *3-nicus's way, (and as one reason for his invent-ing and setting up his own ) quod. Saeris adverfe-tur Literis aliquottes ipfius Terra fiabihtatem confir-mantibus.

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