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Tycho's System of the World
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Coppernican system introduced, but was unable to answer two of the serious objections; he regarded any motion of

Fig. 52.—Tycho's system of the world. From his book on the comet of 1577.

"the sluggish and heavy earth" as contrary to "physical principles," and he objected to the great distance of the