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quitting life and your professorship 13 ; if you held 

 it still, I should, with justice, claim it." This was 

 not saying too much, since he had entirely over- 

 turned the hypothesis of eccentrics and epicycles, 

 and had obtained a theory which was a mere re- 

 presentation of the motions and distances as they 

 were observed. 



13 Ramus perished in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 



