"What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets, and whence is it that Planets move all one and the same way in Oorbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in Orbs very excentrick; and what hinders the fix'd Stars from falling upon one another?"