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.


As quoted in Kepler by Walter William Bryant (1920) - Astronomia nova (1609)

Johannes Kepler Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...