Clare’s Reviews > Kepler's Dream: With the Full Text and Notes of Somnium, Sive Astronomia Lunaris, Joannis Kepleri > Status Update
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"The causes of the ocean's swell seem to be the bodies of the sun and moon which attract the waters of the sea by a certain force similar to magnetism. The body of the earth also attracts its own waters unto itself, by a force which we call gravity. Why, therefore, should we not say the earth also attracts the waters of the moon as the moon attracts terrestrial waters?"
— Apr 12, 2020 06:15PM
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"Here is the hypothesis of the whole dream: that is, an argument for the motion of earth, or rather a refutation of arguments constructed, on the basis of perception, against the motion of the earth."
Kepler, using fiction to help people expand and adjust their scientific mindsets, because mental frameworks matter.
— Apr 04, 2020 04:10PM
Kepler, using fiction to help people expand and adjust their scientific mindsets, because mental frameworks matter.
