Astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571- 1630) uncovered three major laws of planetary motion, as follows: (1) the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus; (2) the time necessary to traverse any arc of a planetary orbit is proportional to the area of the sector between the central body and that arc (the “area law”); and (3) there is an exact relationship between the squares of the planets’ periodic times and the cubes of the radii of their orbits (the “harmonic law”).
“Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind; God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after His own image so that we could share in His own thoughts.” Kepler got this right. "Christ the Lord neither was, nor is, Lutheran, nor Calvinist, nor Papist." Kepler got that wrong.
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