“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.”

—  Galileo Galilei , book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Salviati, p. 88
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

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