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Author Description <b>Alexander Ross</b> (c. 1590–1654) was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King Charles I and vicar of St. Mary's Church, Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight, from 1634 to his death. That same year, in an effort to defend <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2192.Aristotle" title="Aristotle" rel="nofollow noopener">Aristotle</a> against the heliocentric theory of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3072638.Copernicus" title="Copernicus" rel="nofollow noopener">Copernicus</a>, he published <i>Commentum de Terrae Motu Circulari Refutatus</i>, insisting on an immobile earth. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/379190.George_Sale" title="George Sale" rel="nofollow noopener">George Sale</a> spuriously (and unflatteringly) attributed to Ross the English translation of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3178515.Du_Ryer" title="Du Ryer" rel="nofollow noopener">Du Ryer</a>'s 1647 French Qur'an; the association has stuck ever after.

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