Subject:  American Minute - Dec. 27 - Johannes Kepler, astronomer
Date:  Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:07:38 -0600
American Minute with Bill Federer

December 27

An attack of smallpox when he was four-years-old left him with
crippled hands and poor eyesight.

Overcoming those handicaps, he studied Copernicus' works and at age
23 became a professor of astronomy.

His name was Johannes Kepler, born DECEMBER 27, 1571.

His laws of planetary motion, known as Kepler's Laws, helped Newton
formulate the theory of gravity.

In his work, "The Harmonies of the World," book five, Kepler stated:


"O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!...The book
is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which.
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six
thousand years for an observer."

In comparing celestial orbits of the planets with polyphonic
harmonies in music, Kepler wrote:

Holy Father, keep us safe in the concord of our love for one
another, that we may be one just as Thou art with Thy Son, Our Lord,
and with the Holy Ghost, and just as through the sweetest bonds of
harmonies Thou hast made all Thy works one; and that from the
bringing of Thy people into concord, the body of Thy Church may be
built up in the Earth, as Thou didst erect the heavens themselves out
of harmonies."



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