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I Therefore Concluded, And Decided Unhesitatingly, That There Are Three Stars In The Heavens Moving About Jupiter, As Venus And Mercury About The Sun; Which At Length Was Established As Clear As Daylight By Numerous Other Observations.

In Questions Of Science, The Authority Of A Thousand Is Not Worth The Humble Reasoning Of A Single Individual.

The Surface Of The Moon Is Not Smooth, Uniform, And Precisely Spherical As A Great Number Of Philosophers Believe It To Be, But Is Uneven, Rough, And Full Of Cavities And Prominences, Being Not Unlike The Face Of The Earth, Relieved By Chains Of Mountains And Deep Valleys.

The Doctrine That The Earth Is Neither The Center Of The Universe Nor Immovable, But Moves Even With A Daily Rotation, Is Absurd, And Both Philosophically And Theologically False, And At The Least An Error Of Faith.

That Sculpture Is More Admirable Than Painting For The Reason That It Contains Relief And Painting Does Not Is Completely False. ... Rather, How Much More Admirable The Painting Must Be Considered, If Having No Relief At All, It Appears To Have As Much As Sculpture!