...object of his incessant labours. "The die is cast," he said, " the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God waited for six thousand years for an observer." The next book Kepler published, The Epitome...

...bear it. For the die is cast, the book is written, to be read now or by posterity ; I care not. I can well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for a discoverer." CHAPTER V. ON GALILEO AND THE LAWS OF MOTION. So far we have considered the work of...

...months, until, once more, his patience triumphed, and he reached (1618) the third law — The squares of the times of revolution of the planets about the sun...God has waited six thousand years for an observer. \ Galileo. — Contemporary with Kepler was the great Florentine philosopher, Galileo. He discovered...

...you are angry, it is all the same to me. The die is cast; the book is written, — to be read either now, or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer." We do not see this sublime repose in the attitude...

...rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast. The book is written, to be read either now or by posterity — I care not which. It may well...God has waited six thousand years for an observer." More than two hundred years have rolled away since Kepler announced his great discoveries. Science...

...with joy, when he discovered his Third Law: " The die is cast, the book is written to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.' Archimedes is said to have left his bath and...

...the Celestial Motions,' he exclaimed, ' The die is cast — the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited 6,000 years for an interpreter of His works.' But if He, who is the First Cause of...

...exclaimed: "Nothing holds me ! I will indulge my sacred fury ! The hook is written to be read either now or by posterity; I care not which ! It may well wait a century for a reader, since God lias waited 6,000 years for an observer." If Kepler was the minister of science, Agassiz wni her missionary....

...prophet-like saying of his, never surpassed for sublimity by any uninspired utterance of man's: "My book may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Leibnitz's infancy was rocked by the dying throes of the thirty years' earthquake that shook Germany;...

...prophet-like saying of his, never surpassed for sublimity by any uninspired utterance of man's: "My book may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer." Leibnitz's infancy was rocked by the dying throes of the thirty years' earthquake that shook Germany;...