God Is Known By Nature In His

The Number Of The Fixed Stars Which Observers Have Been Able To See Without Artificial Powers Of Sight Up To This Day Can Be Counted. It Is Therefore Decidedly A Great Feat To Add To Their Number, And To Set Distinctly Before The Eyes Other Stars In Myriads, Which Have Never Been Seen Before, And Which Surpass The Old, Previously Known Stars In Number More Than Ten Times.

Nothing Occurs Contrary To Nature Except The Impossible, And That Never Occurs.

I Wish, My Dear Kepler, That We Could Have A Good Laugh Together At The Extraordinary Stupidity Of The Mob. What Do You Think Of The Foremost Philosophers Of This University? In Spite Of My Oft-repeated Efforts And Invitations, They Have Refused, With The Obstinacy Of A Glutted Adder, To Look At The Planets Or The Moon Or My Glass [telescope].

I Truly Believe The Book Of Philosophy To Be That Which Stands Perpetually Open Before Our Eyes, Though Since It Is Written In Characters Different From Those Of Our Alphabet It Cannot Be Read By Everyone.

But What Exceeds All Wonders, I Have Discovered Four New Planets And Observed Their Proper And Particular Motions, Different Among Themselves And From The Motions Of All The Other Stars; And These New Planets Move About Another Very Large Star [jupiter] Like Venus And Mercury, And Perchance The Other Known Planets, Move About The Sun. As Soon As This Tract, Which I Shall Send To All The Philosophers And Mathematicians As An Announcement, Is Finished, I Shall Send A Copy To The Most Serene Grand Duke, Together With An Excellent Spyglass, So That He Can Verify All These Truths.