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Postscript




``You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics,
if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality,
and not according to imagination.''




``You must, however, not expect that everything our Sages say
respecting astronomical matters should agree with observation.''




``Astronomy had, in the days of Aristotle,
not yet developed to the height it has reached at present.''




Moses Maimonides -- Moses ben Maimun -- Abu Amran Musa
Cordoba, 1135--Cairo, 1204




From the Arabic ``Dalalat al'Haírîn'',
translated into Hebrew as ``Moreh Nebûkîm'' (1204),
and into Latin as ``Doctor Perplexorum'', ``Dux Dubitantium''.
French translation entitled ``Guide des égarés'' (Paris, 1856-66).
Here quoted from the English translation ``The Guide of the Perplexed'' (London, 1889).


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