Table Talk

, 2d edit. p. 283. Melancthon's words to Calvin are:

Tuo judicio prorsus assentior. Affirmu etiam vestros magistratus juste fecisse, quod hominem blasphemum, re ordine judicata, interfecerunt.

14th Oct. 1554. — Ed.

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[Footnote 8:]

'But to circle the earth, as the heavenly bodies do,' &c. 'So we may see that the opinion of Copernicus touching the rotation of the earth, which astronomy itself cannot correct, because it is not repugnant to any of the phænomena, yet natural history may correct.'

Advancement of Learning

, B. II. — Ed.

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