More important still, there in the sky was a miniature Copernican system, visible to the aided eye.

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The Jesuits were careful not to promote the Copernican system, still controversial in Europe after the condemnation of Galileo.

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To the objections that the Copernican universe, with its vast spaces outside the solar system, is now too big to be beautiful, Galileo has his puppets ask, Too big for whom?

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