By Marie Boas Hall
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And let us not in matters of reason be led 1. De Revolutionibus was given by Copernicus to his disciple Rheticus to see through the press. He in turn delegated his responsibilities to a Lutheran clergyman Andreas Osiander who, apparently shocked by the novelties of the Copernican system, wrote a preface stating that the author intended his system as a mathematical hypothesis not as a true depiction of the physical universe. As this preface was unsigned it was often taken to have been written by Copernicus himself; evidently Copernicans were not deceived.
Therefore we sometimes employ words new and unheard-of, not (as alchemists are wont to do) in order to veil things with a pedantic terminology and to make them dark and obscure, but in order that hidden things which have no name and that have never come into notice, may be plainly and fully published. After the magnetic experiments and the account of the homogenic parts of the earth, we proceed to a consideration of the general nature of the whole earth; and here we decided to philosophize freely, as freely, as in the past, the Egyptians, Greeks, and Latins published their dogmas; for very many of their errors have 42 A NEW AGE AND AN OLD TRADITION been handed down from author to author till our own time; and as our sciolists2 still take their stand on these foundations, they continue to stray about, so to speak, in perpetual darkness.
But in the first place, it is not probable that the highest heaven and all those visible splendors of the fixed stars are swept round in this rapid headlong career. Besides, what genius ever has found in one same (Ptolemaic) sphere those stars which we call fixed, or ever has given rational proof that there are any such adamantine spheres at all? No man hath shown this ever; nor is there any doubt that even as the planets are at various distances from earth, so, too, are those mighty and multitudinous luminaries ranged at various heights and at distances most remote from earth: they are not set in any sphaeric framework or firmament (as is supposed), nor in any vaulted structure.