If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides. (Johannes Kepler)

If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.

Johannes Kepler

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