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When, Therefore, I Had Long Considered This Uncertainty Of Traditional Mathematics, It Began To Weary Me That No More Definite Explanation Of The Movement Of The World-machine Established In Our Behalf By The Best And Most Systematic Builder Of All, Existed Among The Philosophers Who Had Studied So Exactly In Other Respects The Minutest Details In Regard To The Sphere.

Yet The Widespread Planetary Theories, Advanced By Ptolemy And Most Other Astronomers, Although Consistent With The Numerical Data, Seemed Likewise To Present No Small Difficulty. For These Theories Were Not Adequate Unless They Also Conceived Certain Equalizing Circles, Which Made The Planet Appear To Move At All Times With Uniform Velocity Neither On Its Deferent Sphere Nor About Its Own Epicycle's Center.

In The Midst Of All Dwells The Sun. For Who Could Set This Luminary In Another Or Better Place In This Most Glorious Temple, Than Whence He Can At One And The Same Time Brighten The Whole.

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.

In So Many And Such Important Ways, Then, Do The Planets Bear Witness To The Earth's Mobility.