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Rh God, to remove his ways from human sense, Placed heaven from earth so far, that earthy sight, If it presumes, might err in things too high, And no advantage gain. What if the sun Be centre to the World, and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds! Their wandering course, now high, now low, then hid, Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, In six thou seest; and what if seven to these The planet-earth, so steadfast though she seem, Insensibly three different motions move! Which else to several spheres thou must ascribe Moved contrary with thwart obliquities; Or save the sun his labor, and that swift Nocturnal and diurnal rhomb supposed, Invisible else above all stars, the wheel Of day and night; which needs not thy belief If earth, industrious of herself, fetch day Traveling east, and with her part averse From the sun's beam meet night, her other part Still luminous by his ray. What if that light Sent from her, through the wide transpicuous air, To the terrestrial moon, be as a star Enlightening her by day, as she by night This earth! reciprocal, if land be there, Fields and inhabitants. Her spots thou seest