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CONFIRMED BY EXPERIENCE. 15 ing nigh to the coast for which he is
bound, and which he finds in sight at the dawn of day. In all this,
besides his compass, and log, and observations, he is largely aided
by a nautical almanack, prepared expressly for this purpose, and
embodying the results of the most abstruse astronomical
calculations, on which he justly places implicit reliance. Thus
does Science, with Number for its master- key, unlock the secrets
of planetary space, and render them subservient to man's uses on
the earth. Thus without the aid of fluxions, and logarithms, and
the calculus, all then unknown, was Kepler enabled, by his
indefatigable computations, and sagacious conjectures, to announce
numerical laws, on which, as confirmed by Newton's subsequent
discovery, and profound mathematical demonstrations, the whole
Science of modern Astronomy has been constructed. Owing to his
announcement of these laws, Kepler was entitled the Legislator of
the Skies; as if the planets moved in orbits not merely discovered
but actually assigned to them by man; so -uniform is the
coincidence between human thought concerning them, and the dictates
of that higher Thought of which man is only the interpreter. But
Kepler well knew and was ever forward to acknowledge Who it is, to
whom alone any such a title appertains. Kepler was one of those to
whose apprehension' the heavens declare the glory of God.' And it
is noteworthy in connexion with our main 16 THE NUMERICAL LAW
argument, that occupied, as he was for seventeen long years, in
attempting to discover and verify the third of his laws, his
calculations often baffled by vexatious failure, he was constantly
sustained by the conviction, that there must be some proportion of
Number between the times and distances of the plan...
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