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If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

Johannes Kepler
Moon, Sea, Water
"Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

Johannes Kepler
Ocean, Moon, Water
"Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.

Johannes Kepler
Moon, Water, Substance

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