Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quote

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.


Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), trans. William Gardiner (1715)


They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several...

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several...

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several...

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several...