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See, for example, "Alfonso X as a Patron of Astronomy," pp. 115-28 in Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (New York, 1993), esp. p. 125.

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Cosmic Questions

Scientific Cosmology Meets Western Theology: A Historical Perspective

Two Mythological Arguments

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