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So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many…

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I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion,…
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings…
Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard…
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the…
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions…
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal;…
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline…
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most…
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
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At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — Tom G. Palmer
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others… — Nicolaus Copernicus
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. — John Trumbull
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