Author: Johannes Kepler

Cited by

• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: War of the Worlds (None) Fiction, Science-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But who shall dwell in these Worlds if they be inhabited?... Are we or they Lords of the World?... And how are all things made for man?
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, Germany
• Katherine Marsh (1)
  • IN: Jepp, who defied the Stars (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world.
    FROM: Harmonices Mundi, (1619), Book, Germany
• Anthony Doerr (1)
  • IN: About Grace (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There must be some definite cause why, whenever snow begins to fall, its initial formation invariably displays the shape of a six-cornered starlet. For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall just as well with five corners or with seven? . . . Who carved the nucleus, before it fell, into six horns of ice?
    FROM: On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, (1610), Essay, Germany