FOOTNOTES:
[1] Moreover, other, smaller detached observatories, might be erected on the east and west coasts of America and Africa, on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes and Gilolo, on one of the islands of Gilbert's archipelago and upon one of the Gallopagos islands, if it be considered worth the effort to acquire some real knowledge as to the movement in space of the leader of our planetary system and the bodies pertaining to it.
[2] Inertia is the most simple and most natural (sic) law of nature which can be imagined. Laplace I p. 4.
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Copernicus makes the sun to be motienless,
Copernicus makes the sun to be motionless,
mauner as is indicated in the system of
manner as is indicated in the system of
ideas being at hand which seemed be to better,
ideas being at hand which seemed to be better,
power. If may be said that astronomy has
power. It may be said that astronomy has
upon to sludy seriously the phenomena of
upon to study seriously the phenomena of
for the whole earth, which, founded of the
for the whole earth, which, founded on the
and the subdivision of the work amangst the
and the subdivision of the work amongst the
If the imaginary is prefered to reality, we
If the imaginary is preferred to reality, we
Celebes and Gilolo, on one of the islands ol Gilbert's
Celebes and Gilolo, on one of the islands of Gilbert's
or rather to graph propery and to explain
or rather to grasp properly and to explain