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Full Idea
There can be no centre in infinity.
Gist of Idea
There can be no centre in infinity
Source
Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], I.1069)
Book Ref
Lucretius: 'On the Nature of the Universe', ed/tr. Latham,Ronald [Penguin 1951], p.58
A Reaction
This is highly significant, because if we can establish that the universe is infinite (as Epicurus believes), it follows that the human race cannot be at the centre of it, as the Ptolemaic/medieval view proposed.