"Aristotle... in the Metaphysics, Book XII, Chapter 8... built... the most sublime part of his philosophy... concerning the gods... who... sends his students to the astronomers and who defers to the astronomers in respect to their authority and... testitimony...[H]e would never have scorned or... myself, if... necessity... had made us contemporaries. For he orders his students "to read through both,"...[i.e.,] Eudoxus and , for the one had corrected the errors of the other; and today that would be to read both Ptolemy and Tycho: "but to follow" not, he says, the more ancient, but "the more accurate." And so... if the astronomer, using the arguments which modern times have put forward concerning the heavens, has indicated that creatures arose in the heavens and will disappear once more—in opposition to the opinion of him who alleges experience, but experience not sufficiently long."
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Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae
' was an astronomy book on the published by Johannes Kepler in the period 1618 to 1621. The first volume (books I–III) was printed in 1618, the second (book IV) in 1620, and the third (books V–VII) in 1621. It was translated from the Latin in 1939 by .
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