John Keill Quotes

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Saturn has an Ornament peculiar to himself, for he is dignified with a Ring which surrounds his middle, and does no where touch his Body; but by an exact Libration and Equiponderancy of all its Parts, sustains it self like an Arch, and being thus suspended by Geometry, it is kept from falling upon his Body.

John Keill

Among all the Gifts and Benefits the most bountiful God has most plentifully bestowed on Mankind, those are in the first place Valuable which consist in the Improvements of the Mind by Arts and Sciences.

John Keill

There is nothing in Astronomy which shews the great Sagacity of Human Understanding, and its deep Penetration, more than a clear Explication of the Suddain Disappearings of the Sun and the Moon, that is, of their Eclipses; and the accurate Predictions when they are to come to pass, which the Astronomers can now foretell almost to a Minute.

John Keill

Among all the Mathematical Sciences which have been continually improved, and are daily improving in the World, the First Place has, as it were, by general Consent, Been always given to Astronomy.

John Keill

The fixed stars appear to be of different bignesses, not because they really are so, but because they are not all equally distant from us; those that are nearest will excel in Luster and Bigness; the more remote stars will give a fainter Light, and appear smaller to the Eye.

John Keill