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Okay, so i'm doing a project on Copernicus and I need a primary source and the only thing I could find was the book he wrote "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres." So, I got a direct quote from his book online, but since I don't actually have the book I don't know what page it's on. So, if anyone owns it look for this quote. "[Those who use] eccentrics and epicycles .. do not completely attain their ends. ..though they appear to have well-nigh established the seeming motions by calculations agreeable to their assumptions, [they] have yet made many admissions which seem to violate the first principle of uniformity of motion. Nor have they been able thereby to discern or deduce the principal thing - namely the shape of the universe and the unchangeable symmetry of its parts. With them it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head, and other members for his images from diverse models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body, and since they in no way match each other, the result would be monster rather than man." or something that looks like that....please tell me the page number. I would also really appreciate it if you gave me the full citation as well as the page number (you can go on easybib.com) because there are a couple different translations. So, please help me....most informative answer GETS 10 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU