Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Keplerwas a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 December 1571
CountryGermany
shining mind geometry
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God
art science sky
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.
stars men void
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
men sky use
Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
simplicity unity consciousness
Nature loves simplicity and unity.
mind creation geometry
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation...
astrology belief excitement
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
dirty feet astrology
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
growing-up knowledge animal
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.
mean animal astrology
God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
long effort astronomy
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.
reading science men
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
circles dwelling together
On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation of a great many revolutions that a kind of concave sphere is displayed, having the same center as the Sun, just as by a great many circles of silken thread, linked with each other and wound together, the dwelling of a silkworm is made.
bird singing littles
Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?