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.


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

Johannes Kepler Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...