Johannes Kepler Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

  Johannes Kepler

  Sky, Mind, Shadow

• I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

  Johannes Kepler

  Lying, Science, Heaven

• 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.

  Johannes Kepler

  Different, Body, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

  Johannes Kepler

  Stars, Earth, Sides

• 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.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moon, Sea, Water

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

  Johannes Kepler

  Ocean, Moon, Water

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

  Johannes Kepler

  Home, Fate, Men

• Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.

  Johannes Kepler

  Light, Escaping, Done

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Would Be, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Body, Earth, Unions

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (pp. 35 - 36), 1920.

• The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moon, Water, Substance

• wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

  Johannes Kepler

  Animal, Body, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Fall, Moon

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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