Göksel Makinenin Yeni Anatomisi

Instead of exhibiting to us the most beautiful anatomy of the world composed of parts joined in most absolute proportion and symmetry, they proposed to us a monster, rather mangled and maimed, filled and clumped together without any due order from repugnant and mutually colliding eccentric orbs, and epicycles running irregularly on their own centers, and many other most absurd hypotheses, which are the most alien from all philosophy. And it happened to them just as if someone were to take from various pictures of men—hands, feet, the head, and other members—painted elegantly indeed, but not with the consideration of a single man, and having joined them together, should think that he was exhibiting a perfect picture of a man. If they had assumed true hypotheses, these things could by no means have happened to them. This, therefore, was the primary reason why Copernicus, a man of admirable genius and singular industry, attempted to use other hypotheses and to elicit a new anatomy of the Celestial Machine.