"The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and……" — Tycho Brahe

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is… - Tycho Brahe

"The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Lights [stars] are to be shifted, so that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability of the Earth (as we shall discuss more fully elsewhere)."

— Tycho Brahe

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