We Are Taught All This [the Motion

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

To Know The Mighty Works Of God, To Comprehend His Wisdom And Majesty And Power; To Appreciate, In Degree, The Wonderful Workings Of His Laws, Surely All This Must Be A Pleasing And Acceptable Mode Of Worship To The Most High, To Whom Ignorance Cannot Be More Grateful Than Knowledge.

Perhaps There Will Be Prattlers Who, Although Completely Ignorant Of Mathematics, Nevertheless Take It Upon Themselves To Pass Judgment On Mathematical Questions, And On Account Of Some Passage In Scripture, Badly Distorted To Their Purpose, Will Dare To Censure And Assail What I Have Presented Here.

Therefore, When I Considered This Carefully, The Contempt Which I Had To Fear Because Of The Novelty And Apparent Absurdity Of My View, Nearly Induced Me To Abandon Utterly The Work I Had Begun.

The Universe, Wrought For Us By A Supremely Good And Orderly Creator.