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Nature Uses As Little As Possible Of Anything.

As Soon As Somebody Demonstrates The Art Of Flying, Settlers From Our Species Of Man Will Not Be Lacking On The Moon And Jupiter. Who Would Have Believed That A Huge Ocean Could Be Crossed More Peacefully And Safely Than The The Narrow Expanse Of The Adriatic, The Baltic Sea Or The English Channel? Given Ships Or Sails Adapted To The Breezes Of Heaven, There Will Be Those Who Will Not Shrink From Even That Vast Expanse.

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.

Why Waste Words? Geometry Existed Before The Creation, Is Co-eternal With The Mind Of God, Is God Himself (what Exists In God That Is Not God Himself?): Geometry Provided God With A Model For The Creation And Was Implanted Into Man, Together With God's Own Likeness - And Not Merely Conveyed To His Mind Through The Eyes.

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.