Of All Things Visible, The Highest Is

At Rest, However, In The Middle Of Everything Is The Sun.

When, Therefore, I Had Long Considered This Uncertainty Of Traditional Mathematics, It Began To Weary Me That No More Definite Explanation Of The Movement Of The World-machine Established In Our Behalf By The Best And Most Systematic Builder Of All, Existed Among The Philosophers Who Had Studied So Exactly In Other Respects The Minutest Details In Regard To The Sphere.

I Shall Now Recall To Mind That The Motion Of The Heavenly Bodies Is Circular, Since The Motion Appropriate To A Sphere Is Rotation In A Circle.

For What Could Be More Beautiful Than The Heavens Which Contain All Beautiful Things.

Those Who Know That The Consensus Of Many Centuries Has Sanctioned The Conception That The Earth Remains At Rest In The Middle Of The Heavens As Its Center, Would, I Reflected, Regard It As An Insane Pronouncement If I Made The Opposite Assertion That The Earth Moves.