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Heavenly Bodies Quotes

Historical reflections on tracking the motion of stars and planets.

These heavenly bodies quotes come from an era when astronomers were still working out how the sky's motion should be measured and explained, long before modern instruments. For related reflections on precision and observation, see Ceremonial quotes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

Little
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Nov 07, 2020

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

Quotes by George Phillips Bond

One passage even notes that serious study of celestial position and motion is a relatively recent development compared to how long people have simply watched the sky, a historical framing also present in Eden Hazard and Thomas Ian Griffith quotes.

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