Of All Things Visible, The Highest Is

In So Many And Such Important Ways, Then, Do The Planets Bear Witness To The Earth's Mobility.

The Universe, Wrought For Us By A Supremely Good And Orderly Creator.

Therefore, In The Course Of The Work I Have Followed This Plan: I Describe In The First Book All The Positions Of The Orbits Together With The Movements Which I Ascribe To The Earth, In Order That This Book Might Contain, As It Were, The General Scheme Of The Universe.

Therefore I Would Not Have It Unknown To Your Holiness, The The Only Thing Which Induced Me To Look For Another Way Of Reckoning The Movements Of The Heavenly Bodies Was That I Knew That Mathematicians By No Means Agree In Their Investigation Thereof.

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