Do We Ask What Profit The Little

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.

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.

On How The Motion Of A Planet Defines Its Sphere: ... And Thus It Comes About Gradually By The Linking And Accumulation Of A Great Many Revolutions That A Kind Of Concave Sphere Is Displayed, Having The Same Center As The Sun, Just As By A Great Many Circles Of Silken Thread, Linked With Each Other And Wound Together, The Dwelling Of A Silkworm Is Made.

If My False Figures Came Near To The Facts, This Happened Merely By Chance ... These Comments Are Not Worth Printing. Yet It Gives Me Pleasure To Remember How Many Detours I Had To Make, Along How Many Walls I Had To Grope In The Darkness Of My Ignorance Until I Found The Door Which Lets In The Light Of The Truth ... In Such Manner Did I Dream Of The Truth.

O Telescope, Instrument Of Much Knowledge, More Precious Than Any Sceptre!