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- The ideas presented by Copernicus were received with mixed feelings among some
- astronomers as well as the Catholic Church, which banned Copernicus' book in
- 1616. However, the new heliocentric conception of the universe had come to stay,
- thanks in part to the newly invented art of printing.
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- Like the Aristotelian system, the Copernican system was finite and the distant
- stars were attached to a large fixed sphere, though this sphere had increased in
- size since Aristotle's time. The fixed stars were enormously far away from the
- outermost planet, which at that time was Saturn.
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- Because of the Church De Revolutionibus wasn't published until after Copernicus'
- death.
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