For I Am Not So

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.

Accordingly, Since Nothing Prevents The Earth From Moving, I Suggest That We Should Now Consider Also Whether Several Motions Suit It, So That It Can Be Regarded As One Of The Planets. For, It Is Not The Center Of All The Revolutions.

Although All The Good Arts Serve To Draw Man's Mind Away From Vices And Lead It Toward Better Things, This Function Can Be More Fully Performed By This Art, Which Also Provides Extraordinary Intellectual Pleasure.

Those Things Which I Am Saying Now May Be Obscure, Yet They Will Be Made Clearer In Their Proper Place.

Nations Are Not Ruined By One Act Of Violence, But Gradually And In An Almost Imperceptible Manner By The Depreciation Of Their Circulating Currency, Through Its Excessive Quantity.