Kepler believed in astrology in the sense that he was convinced that planetary configurations physically and really affected humans as well as the weather on earth. As one historian, John North, put it, 'had he not been an astrologer he would very probably have failed to produced his planetary astronomy in the form we have it.' Yet, it would be a mistake to take Kepler's astrological interests as merely pecuniary. Kepler disdained astrologers who pandered to the tastes of the common man without knowledge of the abstract and general rules, but he saw compiling prognostications as a justified means of supplementing his meagre income. Image by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. This pattern led to Kepler's discovery of the nested polyhedra. This diagram from the Mysterium Cosmographicum shows the recurrence pattern of the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, a major astrological event.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |