In So Many And Such Important Ways,

The Strongest Affection And Utmost Zeal Should, I Think, Promote The Studies Concerned With The Most Beautiful Objects, Most Deserving To Be Known.

If There Be Some Who, Though Ignorant Of All Mathematics . . . Dare To Reprove This Work, Because Of Some Passage Of Scripture, Which They Have Miserably Warped To Their Purpose, I Regard Them Not, And Even Despise Their Rash Judgement.

There May Be Babblers, Wholly Ignorant Of Mathematics, Who Dare To Condemn My Hypothesis, Upon The Authority Of Some Part Of The Bible Twisted To Suit Their Purpose. I Value Them Not, And Scorn Their Unfounded Judgment.

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

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