Note 125 — CHAP. IX.

The present Comment, and indeed most of the following, eminently evinces the truth of Kepler’s observation, in his excellent work, De Harmonia Mundi, p. 118. For, speaking of our author’s composition in the present work, which he every where admires and defends, he remarks as follows, “oratio fluit ipsi torrentis instar, ripas inundans, et cæca dubitationum vada gurgitesque occultans, dum mens plena majestatis tantarum rerum, luctatur in angustiis linguæ, et conclusio nunquam sibi ipsi verborum copiâ satisfaciens, propositionum simplicitatem excedit.” But Kepler was skilled in the Platonic philosophy, and appears to have been no less acquainted with the great depth of our author’s mind than with the magnificence and sublimity of his language. Perhaps Kepler is the only instance among the moderns, of the philosophical and mathematical genius being united in the same person.