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they be true, even approximately, or not,
so long as they enable us to compute tables
from which the places of the planets among
the stars can be predicted.[9] He says that
whoever is not satisfied with this explana-
tion must be contented by being told that
”mathematics are for mathematicians” (Math-
ematicis mathematica scribuntur).
At the same time he expresses his con-
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