Johann Heinrich Lambert Quote

I wonder what an astronomy would look like which has been rigorously demonstrated in every respect. It seems as if one can get to the truth only through a series of hypotheses, and that one has to reject each previous one to espouse the next and to abandon it again.


Translated by Stanley Jaki, Cosmological Letters on the Arrangement ofthe World-Edifice, Twentieth Letter (p. 191)


I wonder what an astronomy would look like which has been rigorously demonstrated in every respect. It seems as if one can get to the truth only...

I wonder what an astronomy would look like which has been rigorously demonstrated in every respect. It seems as if one can get to the truth only...

I wonder what an astronomy would look like which has been rigorously demonstrated in every respect. It seems as if one can get to the truth only...

I wonder what an astronomy would look like which has been rigorously demonstrated in every respect. It seems as if one can get to the truth only...