The Systeme of the World: in Four Dialogues Quotes
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“Things are exactly the same in abstract as in concrete.”
“The truth sometimes gaines strength by contradiction.”
“Nature never doth that by many things, which may be done by a few.”
“The circular Figure only is placed amongst the postulata of Mathematicians.”
“It is more difficult to find Figures that touch with a part of their surface, than in one sole point.”
“The having a perfect knowledg of nothing, maketh some believe they understand all things.”
“I thought fit... to appear openly upon the theatre of the World as a witness of the naked truth.”
“Contact in a single point is not peculiar to the perfect Spheres onely, but belongeth to all curved figures.”
“Nature first made things as she pleased, and afterwards capacitated mens understandings for conceiving of them.”
“The Sphericall Figure is easier to be made than any other. ...Sphericall Figures of sundry magnitudes may be made with one onely instrument.”
“It must be granted therefore, either that Socrates or that the Oracle itself was a lyar, that declaring him to be most wise, and he confessing that he knew himself to be most ignorant.”
“The annual motion of the Earth mixing with the motions of the other Planets produce extravagant appearances.”
“I will endeavour to show that all experiments that can be made upon the Earth are insufficient means to conclude for its mobility but are indifferently applicable to the Earth, movable or immovable...”
“Thomas Salusbury, biography at The Archimedes Project.”
“Wikisource: :it:Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico e copernicano”
“These inferences, which our intellect apprehendeth with time and a gradual motion, the Divine Wisdom, like light, penetrateth in an instant, which is the same as to say, hath them alwayes present...”
“Therefore Simplicius, come either with arguments and demonstrations of your own, or of Aristotle, and bring us no more Texts and naked authorities, for our disputes are about the Sensible World, and not one of Paper.”
“I will propose an ingenious fancy. ...the unknown problem of the tides might receive some light, admitting of the Earth's motion. ...I have thought good to lay down those probabilities that would render it credible, admitting that the Earth did move.”
“The centre of the Celestial conversions of the five planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury, is the Sun; and shall be likewise the centre of the motion of the Earth, if we do but succeed in our attempt of placing it in Heaven.”
“Whatsoever motion may be ascribed to the Earth, it is necessary that it be to us, (as inhabitants upon it, and consequently partakers of the same) altogether imperceptible, and as if it were not at all, so long as we have regard onely to terrestrial things...”