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Where There Is Matter, There Is Geometry.

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.

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.

We Find, Therefore, Under This Orderly Arrangement, A Wonderful Symmetry In The Universe, And A Definite Relation Of Harmony In The Motion And Magnitude Of The Orbs, Of A Kind That Is Not Possible To Obtain In Any Other Way.

If My False Figures Came Near To The Facts, This Happened Merely By Chance ... These Comments Are Not Worth Printing. Yet It Gives Me Pleasure To Remember How Many Detours I Had To Make, Along How Many Walls I Had To Grope In The Darkness Of My Ignorance Until I Found The Door Which Lets In The Light Of The Truth ... In Such Manner Did I Dream Of The Truth.