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My Aim Is To Say That The Machinery Of The Heavens Is Not Like A Divine Animal But Like A Clock (and Anyone Who Believes A Clock Has A Soul Gives The Work The Honour Due To Its Maker) And That In It Almost All The Variety Of Motions Is From One Very Simple Magnetic Force Acting On Bodies, As In The Clock All Motions Are From A Very Simple Weight.

I Also Ask You My Friends Not To Condemn Me Entirely To The Mill Of Mathematical Calculations, And Allow Me Time For Philosophical Speculations, My Only Pleasures.

Since We Astronomers Are Priests Of The Highest God In Regard To The Book Of Nature, It Befits Us To Be Thoughtful, Not Of The Glory Of Our Minds, But Rather, Above All Else, Of The Glory Of God.

A Most Unfailing Experience... Of The Excitement Of Sublunary (that Is, Human) Natures By The Conjunctions And Aspects Of The Planets Has Instructed And Compelled My Unwilling Belief.

Since Geometry Is Co-eternal With The Divine Mind Before The Birth Of Things, God Himself Served As His Own Model In Creating The World (for What Is There In God Which Is Not God?), And He With His Own Image Reached Down To Humanity.