A Mind Is Accustomed To Mathematical Deduction,

After The Birth Of Printing Books Became Widespread. Hence Everyone Throughout Europe Devoted Himself To The Study Of Literature... Every Year, Especially Since 1563, The Number Of Writings Published In Every Field Is Greater Than All Those Produced In The Past Thousand Years. Through Them There Has Today Been Created A New Theology And A New Jurisprudence; The Paracelsians Have Created Medicine Anew And The Copernicans Have Created Astronomy Anew. I Really Believe That At Last The World Is Alive, Indeed Seething, And That The Stimuli Of These Remarkable Conjunctions Did Not Act In Vain.

My Greatest Desire Is That I May Perceive The God Whom I Find Everywhere In The External World, In Like Manner Also Within And Inside Myself.

Some Of What These Pamphlets [of Astrological Forecasts] Say Will Turn Out To Be True, But Most Of It Time And Experience Will Expose As Empty And Worthless. The Latter Part Will Be Forgotten Literally: Written On The Winds While The Former Will Be Carefully Entered In People's Memories, As Is Usual With The Crowd.

It May Be Well To Wait A Century For A Reader, As God Has Waited Six Thousand Years For An Observer.

Nothing Which Consists Of Corporeal Matter Is Absolutely Light, But That Is Comparatively Lighter Which Is Rarer, Either By Its Own Nature, Or By Accidental Heat. And It Is Not To Be Thought That Light Bodies Are Escaping To The Surface Of The Universe While They Are Carried Upwards, Or That They Are Not Attracted By The Earth. They Are Attracted, But In A Less Degree, And So Are Driven Outwards By The Heavy Bodies; Which Being Done, They Stop, And Are Kept By The Earth In Their Own Place.