Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.
Laws of planetary motion
Letter to Galileo Galilei, criticizing Aristotelian scholars.
March 28, 1611
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