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other by external [conditions]. But in the case of absolute motion — the domain of free 

 (u) masses — the determination attains its Totality. The Time as the Root is a mere empirical 

 magnitude ; but as a component (moment) of the developed Totality, it is a Totality in 

 itself, — it produces itself, and therein has a reference to itself; — as the Dimensionless 

 Element in itself, it only comes to a formal identity with itself, the Square ; Space, on the 

 other hand, as the positive Distribution (aussereinander) [comes] to the Dimension of the 

 Conception, the Cube. Their Realization preserves their original difference. This is the 

 (u) third Keplerian Law, the relation of the Cubes of the Distances to the Squares of the 

 Times ; a Law which is so great on this account, that it represents so simply and imme- 

 diately Reason as belonging to the thing : while on the contrary the Newtonian Formula, by 

 means of which the Law is changed into a Law for the Force of Gravity, shews the Distortion, 

 Perversion and Inversion of Reflexion which stops half-way. 



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 The center has no sense without the circumference, nor the circumference without the center. 

 This makes all physical hypotheses vanish which sometimes proceed from the center, some- 

 times from the particular bodies, and sometimes assign this, sometimes that, as the original 

 [cause of motion]... It is silly (liippisch) to suppose that the centrifugal force, as a tendency to 

 fly off in a Tangent, has been produced by a lateral projection, a projectile force, an impulse 

 which they have retained ever since they set out on their journey (von Haus aus). Such 

 casualty of the motion produced by external causes belongs to inert matter ; as when a stone 

 fastened to a thread which is thrown transversely tries to fly from the thread. We are not 

 to talk in this way of Forces. If we will speak of Force, there is one Force, whose elements 



{w) do not draw bodies to different sides as if they were two Forces. The motion of the heavenly 

 bodies is not a being pulled this way or that, such as is thus imagined ; it is free motion : they 

 go along, as the ancients said, as blessed Gods (sie gehen als selige Gotter einher). The 

 celestial corporeity is not such a one as has the principle of rest or motion external to itself. 

 Because stone is inert, and all the earth consists of stones, and the other heavenly bodies are of 

 the same nature, — is a conclusion which makes the properties of the whole the same as those of 

 the part. Impulse, Pressure, Resistance, Friction, Pulling, and the like, are valid only for 



(j) an existence of matter other than the celestial. Doubtless that which is common to the two is 

 matter, as a good thought and a bad thought are both thoughts; but the bad one is not 

 therefore good, because it is a thought. 



