Talk:Johannes Kepler

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 * And I cherish more than anything else the Analogies, my most trustworthy masters. They know all the secrets of Nature, and they ought to be least neglected in Geometry. (Gentner 1980, p.1)


 * I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.


 * Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.


 * So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things


 * Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Misquoted
The "shining in the mind of God" quote is by Kepler, but it does not seem to occur in Harmonices Mundi (1618). Rather, I find it is from Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo (1610), edited in KGW [collected works] vol. 4, p. 308, lines 9f, as cited here, verified in the facsimile here, the actual quote reading
 *  Geometria una et aeterna est in mente Dei refulgens: cuius consortium hominibus tributum inter causas est, cur homo sit imago Dei.

--Dbachmann (talk) 09:56, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced, continued
I will begin hiding unsourced quotes that have crept in, today. See decade old statement above, about unattributeed quoted. 2601:246:C700:19D:49BF:AECD:6AA6:2E34 18:27, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your work. I have not had time to examine all of your revisions, or recent ones, but have observed the page needs work and have added a standard "cleanup" tag to it. I also found the "Disputed" heading does not become unavailable in mobile devices — it simply is a reduced sub-heading within the "Quotes" section. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:41, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your collegial response to my work. I am a former faculty member, and am rigourous, if not always informed of WP practices. On the disputed section matter, there are different levels and kinds of disputes, and I have not had time to parse these. (It is possible this section will become larger, and require a lot further explanation, just to accomodate issues of material already present.) My approach is simply to ensure that frequently misused/misascribed quotes are the most visible, so the misuse can wane. Let's keep looking at this. 2601:246:C700:19D:49BF:AECD:6AA6:2E34 20:15, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * For further worl today, see the last two edit summaries. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:19D:49BF:AECD:6AA6:2E34 20:15, 25 February 2020 (UTC)