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130. 23–24. 34–36. Roeslin adopted a geoheliocentric world system similar to that of Tycho. As Kepler summarized Roeslin’s support of Tycho sarcastically, “Roeslin says that I split too many hairs and that nature is simple. Thus, the new foundations of Tycho are all the more agreeable, since they are meaner and more fitting of nature. 29–31. 1–5: “Ferners jrret Rößlinum / das die Erd vom Himmel tota essentia et loco gescheiden. Antwort. D. Rößlin muß erst Copernicum fragen wo er in der Welt daheimen sey.
273–274. 32–41. 105 Granada, 2011a. 106 Aristotle, 2004, p. 9. 107 Gingerich, 1993, pp. 305, 333. 30 chapter one exclusively with his account of planetary motion, however. If we credit him with being the first “to envision astronomy as a part of physics,”108 we must also consider his broader view of physics involving a variety of vitalistic speculations. As we have seen in his study of the new star of 1604, Kepler suggested that superfluous material in every corner of the cosmos was the object of a faculty constantly at work in the conception of new and useful forms.
479. ” See Thorndike, 1934, p. 492. 60 Mayr, 1989, p. 41. 61 Sutter, 1988, p. 15. 62 Comenius, 1954, p. , p. 78. On Comenius’s “strongly vitalistic view of the universe,” see Giglioni, 1995, pp. 27–33. 64 Sutter, 1988, p. 20. Comenius envisioned the end of education as a state similar to that before the Fall. 22 chapter one an exercise that aspired to nature, as boundaries between art and the once inimitable order of nature broke down. 65 In the case of Comenius, the analogy of the clock extended to the very constitution of the soul, where everything from the will to the passions found a clock-like counterpart: Analogically, the will is the main wheel in the motions of the soul.