Ptolemy Quote

We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.


Ptolemy's Almagest (Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 136


We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.

We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.

We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.

We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.