For What Could Be More Beautiful Than

If There Be Some Who, Though Ignorant Of All Mathematics . . . Dare To Reprove This Work, Because Of Some Passage Of Scripture, Which They Have Miserably Warped To Their Purpose, I Regard Them Not, And Even Despise Their Rash Judgement.

Finally We Shall Place The Sun Himself At The Center Of The Universe.

First Of All, We Must Note That The Universe Is Spherical.

The Scorn Which I Had Reason To Fear On Account Of The Novelty And Unconventionality Of My Opinion Almost Induced Me To Abandon Completely The Work Which I Had Undertaken. . . . Astronomy Is Written For Astronomers. To Them My Work Too Will Seem, Unless I Am Mistaken, To Make Some Contribution.

We Are Taught All This [the Motion Of The Earth On Its Axis And Around The Sun] By The Order Of Succession, In Which Those Phenomena (various Planetary Happenings) Follow Each Other, And By The Harmony Of The World, If We Will Only, As The Saying Goes, Look At The Matter With Both Eyes.