Johannes Kepler Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moving, Home, Sun

• Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common center, forcing them all round, but those most violently which are nearest, and that it languishes in some sort and grows weaker at the most distant, because of the remoteness and the attenuation of the virtue.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moving, Sun, Common

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 17), 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 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.

• 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.

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