The Scientific Revolution: The Life and Legacy of Johannes Kepler

By practicing empiricism and coming up with his famous laws of planetary motion, he was forced to defend his positions against a number of important ideas in western philosophy and the contemporary understanding of nature and the cosmos. Kepler himself struggled with the seemingly incongruous division between metaphysics and empiricism. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. "We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Kepler stood at a moment in time when the intellectual worldview of most in northern Europe was medieval in nature, influenced mostly by spirituality, mysticism, religion, and metaphysics. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment." - Johannes Kepler Just trying to define a man who had the qualities of a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, inventor, and astrologer can prove

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