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This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mighty edifice built for eternity.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert The System of the World (1800)

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We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.

The System of the World (1800)

We suppose the existence of a wise and beneficent Being who presided over the formation of the World, and who is pleased to display his infinite perfections on this illustrious theatre.

The System of the World (1800)

But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these researches?

The System of the World (1800)

We will found our hypothesis in the general laws of motion, whose effects are every where the same, and whose influence extends to the utmost limits of matter.

The System of the World (1800)

If in two ellipses having a common major axis we take two such arcs that their chords are equal, and that also the sums of the radii vectores, drawn respectively from the foci to the extremities of these arcs, are equal to each other, then the sectors formed in each ellipse by the arc and the two radii vectores are to each other as the square roots of the parameters of the ellipses.

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