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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 876 — XVI. OF FREETHINKERS.853

Henri Van Laun translation

If we suppose that the earth is immovable, the moon moves at a rate of more than eighteen hundred thousand miles a day, but in reality it moves at the rate of about sixty thousand miles during twenty-four hours.

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