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The Creator, The Fountain Of All Wisdom, The Approver Of Perpetual Order, The Eternal And Superessential Spring Of Geometry And Harmonics.

Once Miracles Are Admitted, Every Scientific Explanation Is Out Of The Question.

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.

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.

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.