"But this kind of argument against Aristotle will perhaps seem too contentious. Therefore let us use his own testimony... for he is not everywhere consistent: in the Metaphysics he attributes movement to the celestial bodies for its own sake and teaches "that they are moved in order that they may be moved"; but in On the Heavens, being admonished by the things themselves, he attributes something... like the terrestrial... multiplex and turbulent to the stars or... their movers, who by... these mechanisms and movements seek another end... in this way... he adduces the fewness of movements in the moon as... the inferior... closer kinship to the Earth."
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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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