The Universe, Wrought For Us

In The Midst Of All Dwells The Sun. For Who Could Set This Luminary In Another Or Better Place In This Most Glorious Temple, Than Whence He Can At One And The Same Time Brighten The Whole.

More Stars In The North Are Seen Not To Set, While In The South Certain Stars Are No Longer Seen To Rise.

So Far As Hypotheses Are Concerned, Let No One Expect Anything Certain From Astronomy, Which Cannot Furnish It, Lest He Accept As The Truth Ideas Conceived For Another Purpose, And Depart From This Study A Greater Fool Than When He Entered It.

Although All The Good Arts Serve To Draw Man's Mind Away From Vices And Lead It Toward Better Things, This Function Can Be More Fully Performed By This Art, Which Also Provides Extraordinary Intellectual Pleasure.

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.