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"We do not ask for what useful goal the parrots do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Likewise, we ought never to ask why the human brain troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so excellent and the treasures covered in the heavens so abundant precisely in order that the human brain shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment." - Johannes Kepler Just wanting to define a guy who possessed the qualities of your mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, inventor, and astrologer can establish difficult. But all of that can be ascribed to Johannes Kepler, one of the giants of his age who ushered in the Scientific Trend which is often considered the first modern scientist. Kepler stood at a moment with time when the intellectual worldview of most in northern European countries was medieval in nature, influenced typically by spirituality, mysticism, religious beliefs, and metaphysics. Kepler, however, was far-thinking in his outlook, taking benefits of the latest technical ideas from the Renaissance and the new translations of Greco-Roman philosophers from from the Spanish kingdoms and the former-Byzantine Empire. Kepler himself struggled with the seemingly incongruous section between metaphysics and empiricism. By exercising empiricism and coming up with his famous regulations of planetary motion, he was obligated to defend his positions against a number of important ideas in western school of thought and the modern day understanding of nature and the cosmos. Even while, Kepler was never able to escape the medieval brain he possessed, and he searched for God in the designs of the cosmos, thus attempting to wed the supernatural to the physical.
