Nature Loves Simplicity And Unity.

I Am A Lutheran Astrologer, I Throw Away The Nonsense And Keep The Hard Kernel.

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.

If The Earth Were Not Round, Heavy Bodies Would Not Tend From Every Side In A Straight Line Towards The Center Of The Earth, But To Different Points From Different Sides.

The Cause Of The Six-sided Shape Of A Snowflake Is None Other Than That Of The Ordered Shapes Of Plants And Of Numerical Constants; And Since In Them Nothing Occurs Without Supreme Reason-not, To Be Sure, Such As Discursive Reasoning Discovers, But Such As Existed From The First In The Creators's Design And Is Preserved From That Origin To This Day In The Wonderful Nature Of Animal Faculties, I Do Not Believe That Even In A Snowflake This Ordered Pattern Exists At Random.

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.