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पूर्व और पश्चिम के उल्लिखित अनुसन्धानों से हमें यही रहस्य मिलता है कि उनका मुख्य लक्ष्य पृथ्वी चलती हैं या सूर्य यह न होकर ग्रह गरणों की स्थिति में प्राकृतिक नियमों से जो
centre of the solar system. And even this centre of the galactic system cannot be said to be at rest. For millions of galactic systems can be seen in the sky, all pretty much like our and all in motien relative to our own galaxy and to one another. No one of all these galaxies has a better claim than any other to constitute a standard 'rest' from which the 'motions' on the others can be measured. Nevertheless, many complicatons are avoided by imagining that the sun and not the earth is at rest. Neither the sun nor the earth is at rest in any absolute sense and yet it is, in a sense, nearer to the truth to say that the earth moves round a fixed sun than to say that the sun moves round a fixed earth.
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Copernicus had still to retain a few minor epicycles to make his system agree with the facts of observation. This, as we now know, was the inevitable consequence of his assumption that the planetary orbits were circular; neithers he nor any one else had so far dared to challange Aristotle's dictum that the plantes must necessarily move in circular orbits, because the circle was the only perfect course. As
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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