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I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.
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Our interpretation.
Kepler has cast the die and written his book, and he doesn't care when it's read. If it waits a century for a reader, so be it. He compares that patience to God waiting thousands of years for his work to be seen.
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