Sentences with phrase «utmost earnestness»

In it you maintain that the earth moves; that the sun occupies the lowest, and thus the central, place in the universe... Therefore with the utmost earnestness I entreat you, most learned sir, unless I inconvenience you, to communicate this discovery of yours to scholars, and at the earliest possible moment to send me your writings on the sphere of the universe together with the tables and whatever else you have that is relevant to this subject...»

Even when church officials — who, contrary to legend, approved of Copernicus's findings — asked him, according to Repcheck, «with the utmost earnestness» to publish his book and offered to pay his expenses, Copernicus refused.