For it is no part of the business of an astronomer to know what is by nature suited to a position of rest, and what sort of bodies are apt to move, but he introduces hypotheses under which some bodies remain fixed, while others move, and then considers to which hypotheses the phenomena actually observed in the heavens will correspond.


In: T. Heath, Greek Astronomy (p. 125)

Geminus Quotes

For it is no part of the business of an astronomer to know what is by nature suited to a position of rest, and what sort of bodies are apt to move,...

For it is no part of the business of an astronomer to know what is by nature suited to a position of rest, and what sort of bodies are apt to move,...

For it is no part of the business of an astronomer to know what is by nature suited to a position of rest, and what sort of bodies are apt to move,...

For it is no part of the business of an astronomer to know what is by nature suited to a position of rest, and what sort of bodies are apt to move,...