If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters;… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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