Johannes Kepler — "My goal is to show that the heavenly machine is not a kind of divine living bein…"

My goal is to show that the heavenly machine is not a kind of divine living being but similar to a clockwork insofar as all the manifold motions are taken care of by one single absolutely simple magnetic bodily force, as in a clockwork all motion is taken care of by a simple weight.
Johannes Kepler — Johannes Kepler Early Modern · Laws of planetary motion

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Letter to Herwart von Hohenberg, advocating a mechanistic view of the cosmos.

Date: February 10, 1605

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