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The castle of knowledge (1556)

Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558 · Imprinted at London : By Reginalde Wolfe · leaf 124

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he coulde bring no reafon for his opinion, you fhalf heare fome reafon againft his phantafye,and then iudge as youcan. | f Pore il | Firfte [τεαίοιι thus : If the heauen be flatte and plaine as hat the a borde, then howe fo euer it ftande, one parte of it mufte fkoe & not needes be nearcr to the… … in that flatte plaine forme, whiche is fette to reprefent the flatte f kye. | GU Matter. Nowe then what will Lactantius fay,or any man’ for him¢doth this heauen moucor note : Schollar. Hecan not deny that which we maye fee with our cies, that bothe the Sonne, the Moone, and all Starres doo moue…

Astronomy · Cosmography · Imprint 1556

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