The Radius Vector Describes Equal Areas In

Either... The Moving Intelligences Of The Planets Are Weakest In Those That Are Farthest From The Sun, Or... There Is One Moving Intelligence In The Sun, The Common Center, Forcing Them All Round, But Those Most Violently Which Are Nearest, And That It Languishes In Some Sort And Grows Weaker At The Most Distant, Because Of The Remoteness And The Attenuation Of The Virtue.

Yet In This My Stars Were Not Mercury As Morning Star In The Angle Of The Seventh House, In Quartile With Mars, But They Were Copernicus, They Were Tycho Brahe, Without Whose Books Of Observations Everything Which Has Now Been Brought By Me Into The Brightest Daylight Would Lie Buried In Darkness.

Repudiating The Sensible World, Which He Neither Sees Himself Nor Believes From Those Who Have, The Peripatetic Joins Combat By Childish Quibbling In A World On Paper, And Denies The Sun Shines Because He Himself Is Blind.

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

It Is A Right, Yes A Duty, To Search In Cautious Manner For The Numbers, Sizes, And Weights, The Norms For Everything [god] Has Created. For He Himself Has Let Man Take Part In The Knowledge Of These Things ... For These Secrets Are Not Of The Kind Whose Research Should Be Forbidden; Rather They Are Set Before Our Eyes Like A Mirror So That By Examining Them We Observe To Some Extent The Goodness And Wisdom Of The Creator.