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For it is the duty of an astronomer to record celestial motions through careful observation. Then, turning to the causes of these motions, he must conceive and devise hypotheses about them, since he cannot in any way attain the true cause. But, from whatever assumptions he adopts, the motions can be correctly calculated from the principles of geometry for the past as well as the future.

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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). The Gold Medal. In: Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32848-5_3

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