IF there be some babblers who, though ignorant of all mathe- 

 matics, take upon them to judge of these things, and dare to blame 

 and cavil at my work, because of some passage of Scripture which 

 they have wrested to their own purpose, I regard them not, and 

 will not scruple to hold their judgment in contempt. 



COPPERNICUS, De Revolutionists (Dedication to the Pope). 



