Sources: astronomy
Links to things I want to remember
Kepler's Dream
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024Another amazing essay by Maria Popova, this one on Johannes Kepler and his remarkable, tragic story. Great description of his contributions to modern cosmology but most interesting in organizing the story around his work of fiction, The Dream, intended to help show common readers the intuitions supporting Copernican cosmology, but which inadvertantly lead to his mother’s trial for witchcraft.