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to sink ; and if it is equal to it, it can stand at one of the ends as well as in the centre or below.

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The object of my book is to prove that the ocean, with the other seas, by means of the sun causes our world to shine like the moon and to appear as a star to other worlds; and this I will prove.

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In your discourse you must prove that the earth is a star like the moon, and thus you will bear witness to the glory of our universe ! And thus you must discourse on the size of many stars.

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How the earth is a star. The earth, in the midst of the sphere of water which clothes the greater part of it, taking its light from the sun and shining in the universe like the other stars, shows itself to be a star as well.

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First of all define the eye; then show how the twinkling of a star exists really in the eye, and why one star should twinkle more than another, and how the rays of the stars are born in the eye. Say, that if the twinkling of the stars were, as it appears to be, really in the stars, that this twin-

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