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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
- Heavens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heavenly Bodies
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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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.
- Nov 07, 2020
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
- Everywhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
- Heavenly Bodies
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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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
- Bounded
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- Nov 07, 2020
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.
- Near
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- Nov 07, 2020
Near the sun is the center of the universe.
- Middle
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- Nov 07, 2020