"What was observed by us in the third place is the nature or matter of the Milky Way itself, which, with the aid of the spyglass, may be observed so well that all the disputes that for so many generations have vexed philosophers are destroyed by visible certainty, and we are liberated from wordy arguments."
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Galileo Galilei in: Sidereus Nuncius, Or The Sidereal Messenger, University of Chicago Press, Apr 15, 1989, p. 62
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