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If The Earth Should Cease To Attract Its Waters To Itself All The Waters Of The Sea Would Be Raised And Would Flow To The Body Of The Moon.

The Wisdom Of The Lord Is Infinite As Are Also His Glory And His Power. Ye Heavens, Sing His Praises; Sun, Moon, And Planets, Glorify Him In Your Ineffable Language! Praise Him, Celestial Harmonies, And All Ye Who Can Comprehend Them! And Thou, My Soul, Praise Thy Creator! It Is By Him And In Him That All Exist.

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.

Great Is God Our Lord, Great Is His Power And There Is No End To His Wisdom. Praise Him You Heavens, Glorify Him, Sun And Moon And You Planets. For Out Of Him And Through Him, And In Him Are All Things..... We Know, Oh, So Little. To Him Be The Praise, The Honor And The Glory From Eternity To Eternity.

So, Fabricius, I Already Have This: That The Most True Path Of The Planet [mars] Is An Ellipse, Which Dürer Also Calls An Oval, Or Certainly So Close To An Ellipse That The Difference Is Insensible.