“Johannes Kepler – Discovering the Laws of Celestial Motion” (CLICK HERE for it)
This book by William Boerst provides an overview of Kepler’s life and work that includes Kepler’s religious motivation for his work. For example, it notes that Kepler viewed the heliocentric system as a fitting creation of God, and cites Kepler’s statement that the real purpose of comets is as “witnesses that there is a God in heaven”. It contains many historical illustrations. The focus of the book is on Kepler’s science, and to this end it includes both diagrams and some introductory mathematics. (CLICK HERE to continue).
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