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Although in every age there have been those who cultivated astronomy,…
Quote byDavid Gregory · 1659–1708
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Inaugural Lecture by David Gregory M.D. Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1692).
English (original)
Although in every age there have been those who cultivated astronomy, either by... observations... or by theories and systems made up according to the state of understanding of any period, or by a talent for exposition, yet the lucubrations of all these astronomers do not reveal the ways of the heaven any more than they reveal the skill and experience of their progenitors in geometrical matters.
— David Gregory
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