More from Johannes Kepler
- As quoted in Karl Fink, A Brief History of Mathematics (1903), tr. W. W. Beman and D. E. Smith
- Translated by Edward Rosen, Kepler’s Conversation with Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger (1965), p. 39.
I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
Johannes Kepler on science
Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted by Steven G. Krantz, Brian E. Blank, Calculusː Multivariable (2006) p. 126.
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