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==Influence== Galileo assigns to Arsatilis<ref>Generally thought to be [[Aristyllus]]. See for example: {{Cite book | title=Collected Works: The Minor Works | author=Nicolaus Copernicus | editor=Pawel Czartoryski | translator=E. Rosen | publisher=Springer | date=2016 | ISBN=9781349017799 | page=150}} Corollary 1.</ref> and Timocharis the origin "third opinion" on the number of heavens, namely that there were nine heavens, seven for the planets, one for the daily movement of the firmament from east to west, and another for the slower motion from west to east, while crediting Hipparchus, [[Agrias]], [[Milaeus]] and [[Ptolemy]] with improving the model.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Galileo's early notebooks : the physical questions : a translation from the Latin, with historical and paleographical commentary|author=Galilei, Galileo| date=1977| publisher=University of Notre Dame Press| location=Notre Dame, Indiana| page=60 [4]}}</ref> This was when Galileo was of the opinion that there were ten movable heavens, and an eleventh immovable.<ref>''Ibid'', p 63 [11]</ref>
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