Where There Is Matter, There Is Geometry.

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.

...those Laws Are Within The Grasp Of The Human Mind. God Wanted Us To Recognize Them By Creating Us After His Own Image So That We Could Share In His Own Thoughts... And If Piety Allow Us To Say So, Our Understanding Is In This Respect Of The Same Kind As The Divine, At Least As Far As We Are Able To Grasp Something Of It In Our Mortal Life.

Why Are Things As They Are And Not Otherwise?

I Used To Measure The Heavens, Now I Measure The Shadows Of Earth. The Mind Belonged To Heaven, The Body's Shadow Lies Here.

Wheresoever The Earth May Be Placed, Or Whithersoever It May Be Carried By Its Animal Faculty, Heavy Bodies Will Always Be Carried Towards It.