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fame reafon which at firfl: fuggefted it. It is from 

 it's being the bed adapted to the weaknefs of my 

 body, and of my mind. I find, in fa6t, that the 

 rotation of the Earth, every day, faves the Sun a 

 prodigious journey : but, in other refpefts, I by 

 no means believe that this fyftem is that of Na- 

 ture, and that (he has difclofed the caufes of mo- 

 tion to men, who are incapable of accounting for 

 the movement of their own fingers. 



I beg leave to fugged fome farther probabiHties 

 in favour of the Sun's motion round the Earth. 

 " The Aflronomers of Greenwich, having difco- 

 ** vered that a flar of Taurus has a declination of 

 " two minutes, every twenty-four hours ; that this 

 " ftar not being dim, and having no train, cannot 

 " be confidered as a comet, communicated their 

 *^ dbfervations to the Aftronomers of Paris, who 

 " found them accurate. M. Mejfier was appointed 

 ** to make a report of this to the Academy of 

 " Sciences, at their next meeting *." 



If the Stars are Suns, here then is a Sun in mo- 

 tion, and that motion is a prefumption, at leaft, 

 that ours may move. 



* Extract from the Courier de l'Europe, Friday, 4th May, 

 1781. 



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