The Discovery of a World in the Moone

folly for the same opinion: original: "Est enim non ignobilis gradus stultitiae, vel si nescias quid dicas, tamen velle de rebus propositis hanc vel illam partem stabilire." "It is none of the worst kinds of folly, boldly to affirm one side or other, when a man knows not what to say."

If these men were thus censured, I may justly then expect to be derided by most, and to be believed by few or none; especially since this opinion seems to carry in it so much strangeness, so much contradiction to the general consent of others. But however, I am resolved that this shall not be any discouragement, since I know that it is not the common opinion of others that can either add to or detract from the truth.
For:
1. Other truths have been formerly esteemed altogether as ridiculous as this can be.