Kepler : Johannes (1571-1630), German astronomer who discovered that the earth & the other planets travel around the Sun in elliptical orbits.
... as in the fact that the system he did propound would ignite the great revolution in physics that we associate with the names of Galileo, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton. The so-called Copernican revolution was really a later revolution of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton.” 13 In fact, Galileo’s “spyglass” or “optick tube” did more for the acceptance of the heliocentric system than Copernicus’ famous... they owe to the activist thinkers of centuries not that long past. It was against this 17th century background that the scientific revolution took place. The principles then formulated by Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, and a host of less well-known “natural philosophers,” are still the pillars supporting positivist or materialistic science today. All can be found, worded in various ways, in the ...
... present-day physics to calculate fantastically complex events in a past many billions of years ago and totally different from the present circumstances. New technological instruments, like the Hubble and Kepler telescopes, do allow to see billions of light years into the past of the cosmos, but the interpretation of the obtained data rests on theories which are quite novel and changing all the time. Serious... the language and tokens of the vital and mental Brahman.” 34 Western scientific materialism, after initially accepting the Book of God (the Bible ) and the Book of Nature, as Galileo and Kepler did, has rejected the former and accepts exclusively the latter, not realizing that it is trying to decipher an amputated version. To solve its own fundamental problems, to approach closer to reality ...
... second. "What deep faith," he exclaims, "in the rationality of the structure of the world, what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world, there must have been in Kepler and Newton!" But, beyond the derivation of science from a "cosmic religious feeling", there is for Einstein an utter divergence between science and religion. Science, he believes, deals with what ... exertions without which pioneer creation in scientific thought can never come into being. It is not only a "cosmic religious feeling", a sense of an ordering mind within the universe, that inspires a Kepler and a Newton and an Einstein, but also an admitted or unadmitted reliance on the discovery by intuition that reality supports by its nature the ideal of truth. Take away from the non-scientific domain ...
... star which the Magi, the Wise Men of the East, are said by Matthew (2:1-2) to have followed as a guide towards the one "who is born king of the Jews". The visit of the Magi may not be history, but, as Kepler calculated in 1603, there was indeed an abnormal phenomenon in the night-sky in 7 B.C. The planets Jupiter and Saturn were in "conjunction" -that is, appeared very close to each other - in the con... the German scholar, deciphering the Neo-Babylonian cuneiform writings of a famous professional institute in the ancient world, the School of Astrology at Sipper in Babylonia, found a confirmation of Kepler in a note about the position of the planets in the constellation of Pisces, carefully marking in Jupiter and Saturn over a period of five months in what would be reckoned as 7 B.C. in our calendar ...
... present time? The simple and far-reaching answer is, as already stated above, that the Western image of man and of reality was and remains fatefully defective. The “natural philosophy” of Galileo and Kepler has led to the recognition that Matter is the sole constituent of the universe; man, part of the universe, became nothing else than matter. Then, what is Mind? The high-wire intellectual acrobatics... “Natural philosophy” – what we now call “science” – however controversial it may have become at present, seemed an almost miraculous discovery at the time of Galileo, Kepler and Newton. × Sri Aurobindo: A Dream of Surreal Science , in Collected Poems, p. 145. ...
... together with the great Greeks, were his predecessors; but he shared the Renaissance mind to ask questions and to dare to answer them, even if they did not agree with the teachings of Rome. Johann Kepler, the great astronomer and mathematician so often ignored, was a mystic pure and simple, and spoke out as such, for instance in his De Harmonia Mundi . Descartes had been educated by the Jesuits, spent... is no contradiction between holding a staunch belief in supernatural design and working as a creative scientist … No one illustrates this point better than the seventeenth century astronomer Johann Kepler … Kepler’s work and life provide central evidence that an individual can be a creative scientist and a believer in divine design in the universe, and that indeed the very motivation for the scientific ...
... significantly the absence of stark opposition has been with regard to the science that is the very foundation of all sciences: physics. What is called classical or Newtonian physics was with Galileo and Kepler and Newton "the thinking of God's thoughts after Him". That is to say, physics was regarded as a discovery, by actual observation and by mathematical calculation, of the processes and laws of matter... "What deep faith," exclaims Einstein, "in the rationality of the structure of the world, what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world, there must have been in Kepler and Newton!" Einstein sums up his notion of science's dependence on response to a Superior Intelligence mathematically operative in the cosmos: "Science without religion is lame." And he goes on ...
... The God of the Scientist IT is meaningless to hold that a scientist must necessarily be an atheist. There is no need to cite instances of the past. Leaving aside the examples of Newton, Kepler and Tycho Brahe, even in the world of to-day it is not rare to find more than one scientist who believes in God. In this respect Lodge, Eddington, Einstein and Planck are outstanding figures that require... compilers, cataloguers, but those who have discovered something genuine and have been able to unveil some secrets of Nature emanate the fragrance and radiance I speak of, beyond the reasoning faculty. When Kepler looked at the sky through his telescope to observe the course of the stars and the planets, he was deeply absorbed in the experience of something vast, infinite, strange and mysterious. Was it not ...
... of consciousness. The spectacular twentieth century with the dawning awareness of the unity of the one Earth was foreseen long before Leonardo da Vinci, 91 as long before Giordano Bruno, Johannes Kepler, Erasmus, Mercator, Vesalius, Christiaan Huygens and Galileo Galilei the coming was foreseen of the being that would be the fulfillment and at the same time the surpassing of man. None can tell why ...
... Newton, one of the most prominent names in the pantheon of modern science, has written more about alchemy and other occult matters than about his fundamental scientific discoveries, and so has Johannes Kepler. ‘Over the last 25 or so years there has been an occult boom, a “magical explosion”, of a sort not experienced since the later years of the Roman Empire,’ write Francis King and Isabel Sutherland ...
... be translated into the language of sense-data. But what of the intermediate steps? Should they too be capable of visualization in terms of sense-data? In the light of the achievements of Galileo, Kepler and Newton, it looked, indeed, in the first stages of physics, as if such a requirement could be imposed on the theory. It was the period of 'mechanistic picture' of the universe where all phenomena ...
... its effective application, in its successful working out. All scientific discoveries in the beginning appear as inconveniences that upset the known and accepted order. Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Maxwell or Einstein in our day enunciated principles that were not obvious sense-given axioms. These are at the outset more or less postulates that have to be judged by their applicability. ...
... to crown all, it has found out that the Page 339 Extremists,—those bold, bad, dangerous men,—represent a party which consists only of themselves. This is a discovery worthy of Newton or Kepler and it has naturally filled Hare Street with delighted awe. An ordinary man might ask, of whom else should the party consist? But such criticism would be profane in the face of so much occult knowledge ...
... in 1959. Although biology relied on physics as its nethermost basis, the background mentality in the two fields was quite dissimilar, physics having its tradition of the great “mystics” (Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and the Einstein-Bohr generation), biology convinced of its metaphysical truths within a chitin shell of dogmatism, possibly secreted because of sheer vulnerability. Because of the Second ...
... grasp on the subjects under its consideration, which were living organisms. A dead bird does not move unless moved, a living bird flies away of itself. In the 1660s, when the main works of Galileo, Kepler and Descartes had been published and Newton was already working on his grand synthesis, “European medical knowledge and teaching were in a state of flux. New anatomical and physiological discoveries ...
... 214 Kahler, Erich, 358-9 -Man the Measure, 358 Kali, 327 Kalidasa, 8, 55, 136, 197 Kant, 326, 345 Kanwa, 247 Keats, 120, 194 Kepler, 301, 308 Khilafat, 51 Kierkegaard, 362, 375-6 Koran, the, 70 Korea, 209 Kosala,91 Kurukshetra, 80,81 LAERTES, 188 Lamarck, 254 ...
... and in the best dictionaries. Page 239 The sun's revolving around the earth, too, was for centuries such a dead certainty to early European astronomers that Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had to be dangerous heretics to think otherwise —luckily, that certainty is now dead indeed, as are the countless instances of human blindness that litter the ages. The 'Aryan Invasion Theory,' as ...
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