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• Private Joke Center of the known universe.
• Mobile: [Mo-BEEL'] -n... Cultural center of the Universe...
• But Aristarchus of Samos brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, in which the premises lead to the conclusion that the universe is many times greater than that now so called.
  His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain motionless, that the earth revolves about the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same center as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface....
• I'm a lonely, insignificant speck on a has-been planet orbited by a cold, indifferent sun.
  -- Copernicus still has some followers, "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Home...
• When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.
• Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe.
  The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool....