"Then what is it which makes the planets move around the sun, each planet within the boundaries of its own region, if there are not any solid spheres, and if the globes themselves cannot be fastened to anything else and made to stick there, and if without solid spheres they cannot be moved from place to place by any soul? Even if things are very far removed from us and... are difficult to explain and give rise to... uncertain judgements... if we follow probability and... not to postulate anything... contrary to us, it will... be clear that no mind is to be introduced which should turn the planets by the dictation of reason and... that no soul is to be put in charge of this revolution, in order that it should impress something into the globes by the balanced contest of the forces, as takes place in the revolution around the axis; but that there is one only solar body, which is situated at the centre of the whole universe, and to which this movement of the primary planets around the body of the sun can be ascribed."
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Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae
' was an astronomy book on the published by Johannes Kepler in the period 1618 to 1621. The first volume (books I–III) was printed in 1618, the second (book IV) in 1620, and the third (books V–VII) in 1621. It was translated from the Latin in 1939 by .
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