The Bible Shows The Way

Facts Which At First Seem Improbable Will, Even On Scant Explanation, Drop The Cloak Which Has Hidden Them And Stand Forth In Naked And Simple Beauty.

We See Only The Simple Motion Of Descent, Since That Other Circular One Common To The Earth, The Tower, And Ourselves Remains Imperceptible. There Remains Perceptible To Us Only That Of The Stone, Which Is Not Shared By Us; And, Because Of This, Sense Shows It As By A Straight Line, Always Parallel To The Tower, Which Is Built Upright And Perpendicular Upon The Terrestrial Surface.

Philosophy Is Written In That Great Book Which Ever Lies Before Our Eyes — I Mean The Universe — But We Cannot Understand It If We Do Not First Learn The Language And Grasp The Symbols, In Which It Is Written.

Take Note, Theologians, That In Your Desire To Make Matters Of Faith Out Of Propositions Relating To The Fixity Of Sun And Earth You Run The Risk Of Eventually Having To Condemn As Heretics Those Who Would Declare The Earth To Stand Still And The Sun To Change Position-eventually, I Say, At Such A Time As It Might Be Physically Or Logically Proved That The Earth Moves And The Sun Stands Still.

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.