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We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.

— Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)

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So vast, without any question, is the divine handiwork of the most excellent Almighty.

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