What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
The world is my country. Science my religion.
I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.