Jean Picard Quote

We must look to the heavens...for the measure of the earth.


Mesure de la terre (1671), 165. Trans. J. L. Heilbron, Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800 (1993)


We must look to the heavens...for the measure of the earth.

We must look to the heavens...for the measure of the earth.

We must look to the heavens...for the measure of the earth.

We must look to the heavens...for the measure of the earth.