That astronomer well performs his office who predicts with the greatest measure of approximation the motions and situations of the stars: but he does better and is held worthy of the greater praise who in addition to this furnishes us with true opinions concerning the form of the world.


Opera Omnia (Volume 1) (p. 242)


That astronomer well performs his office who predicts with the greatest measure of approximation the motions and situations of the stars: but he does ...

That astronomer well performs his office who predicts with the greatest measure of approximation the motions and situations of the stars: but he does ...

That astronomer well performs his office who predicts with the greatest measure of approximation the motions and situations of the stars: but he does ...

That astronomer well performs his office who predicts with the greatest measure of approximation the motions and situations of the stars: but he does ...