“ In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility. ”
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.