Do We Ask What Profit The Little

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.

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.

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.

I Measured The Skies, Now The Shadows I Measure, Sky-bound Was The Mind, Earth-bound The Body Rests. [kepler's Epitaph]

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