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beguiled men of seien^ tvf S 
«s 
chaseX the S3K ^ 
^^•SSe^SSiS^,,^ 
r to “? 
offers' Alcyone as^ the unmoved centre for all the twelve hundred 
nri 
motions a? when o;« Journey began U«er empune ss ^d 
SSn the PllS, or of - own sfstem, and no grappling- 
ir0 3 rOnTe b other tat when we frankly accept the truth that 
0“ lieavenly^ bodies^ 
plane around the 
that the earth, . eve > J ^ ^ refereIlc e to the earth’s centre and 
sria^tSi s "r s ^ 
planets, though not equally 
^3S5^rt to set SSS 
of UresTrclative motions, and convict the language which embodies 
‘''To^hTrislne/ltltion, and setting of the sun, moon, and 
„. transit of Venus across the sun's disc, the travelling of 
! 1 over the sun in an eclipse, the occupation of stars, the 
nrtZee o71* into fte field of a' telescope, the preceding and 
fSlntincr Darts of the heavens, the immersion and emersion of 
limiter’s satellites, are all phrases scientifically true, lhoy arc 
not mistakes or falsehoods, but facts of relative motion, strictly 
and rightly expressed. Other statements, which give the motio 
