If The Earth Should Cease

Since Geometry Is Co-eternal With The Divine Mind Before The Birth Of Things, God Himself Served As His Own Model In Creating The World (for What Is There In God Which Is Not God?), And He With His Own Image Reached Down To Humanity.

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.

I Also Ask You My Friends Not To Condemn Me Entirely To The Mill Of Mathematical Calculations, And Allow Me Time For Philosophical Speculations, My Only Pleasures.

Geometry Is One And Eternal Shining In The Mind Of God. That Share In It Accorded To Men Is One Of The Reasons That Man Is The Image Of God.

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.