"I thought fit... to appear openly upon the theatre of the World as a witness of the naked truth."

"It is my resolution... to give foreign nations to see of this matter... And, collecting all the speculations of mine …"

"I have personated the Copernican... proceeding upon the hypothesis purely mathematical; striving by every artifice to…"

"I will endeavour to show that all experiments that can be made upon the Earth are insufficient means to conclude for …"

"We will examine the celestial phenomena that make for the Copernican hypothesis, as if it were to prove absolutely vi…"

"I will propose an ingenious fancy. ...the unknown problem of the tides might receive some light, admitting of the Ear…"

"I hope that by these considerations the world will come to know that, if other nations have navigated more than we, w…"

"Neither one nor the other doth follow, for that both the assertions may be true. The Oracle adjudged Socrates the wi­…"

"I chanced, many years ago, as I lived in the stupendous city of Venice, to converse frequently with the Signor Giovan…"

"Judicious Reader, There was published some years since in Rome a salutiferous edict which... imposed a seaonable sile…"