 | Nicholas Jardine - Science - 1988 - 324 pages
...two motions equal to those which we have described in connection with the centre of the eccentric, all the phenomena would appear as before - the same figures and the same proof. Nothing else would be changed in them, and in particular nothing pertaining to the sun, except the position.... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...similar and equal to those which I explained in connection with the center of the eccentric [III, 20], all the phenomena would appear as before - the same...phenomena pertaining to the sun, except the position. For then the motion of the earth's center around the center of the universe would be regular and simple... | |
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... system, he says:32 Nevertheless I am also not unaware that if anybody believed the center of the annual revolution to be stationary as the center of the universe, while the sun moved with two motions similar and equal to those which I explained in... 