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Enkidu Posted 17 years ago
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To ban Copernicus, when his doctrine is daily reinforced with many new observations, seems, in my judgment, to be a contravention of truth, hiding and suppressing her when she is most clearly and plainly revealed, [despite the advances of Copernicus, even when his theories are couched in mysteries so sublime and concepts so profound, that hundreds upon hundreds of the most acute minds have still not pierced them]

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] [despite the advances of Copernicus, even when his theories involve ideas so hard that many of the smartest people still can't understand them] I had a little trouble with the overall sentence because you didn't make it clear whether the brackets are yours or the author's. Please post again if you need any further help. Clive I need this bracketed part to be simplified.

  • ] [despite the advances of Copernicus, even when his theories involve ideas so hard that many of the smartest people still can't understand them] I had a little trouble with the overall sentence because you didn't make it clear whether the brackets are yours or the author's.
  • Please post again if you need any further help.
  • Clive I need this bracketed part to be simplified.
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Hi,
To ban Copernicus, when his doctrine is daily reinforced with many new observations, seems, in my judgment, to be a contravention of truth, hiding and suppressing her when she is most clearly and plainly revealed, [despite the advances of Copernicus, even when his theories are couched in mysteries so sublime and concepts so profound, that hundreds upon hundreds of the most acute minds hav
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not mine, writer's. (Galileo is the writer of this passage in the documentary that I translate )

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