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the Dipper of freckles constellating the olive firmament of a certain forearm I love
simultaneity
we mistake chance for choice,
Kepler’s life is a testament to how science does for reality what Plutarch’s thought experiment known as “the Ship of Theseus” does for the self.
As time began to corrode the vessel, its components were replaced one by one—new planks, new oars, new sails—until no original part remained. Was it then, Plutarch asks, the same ship?
Iv heard abois theory befre..v interesting
The more fragments we perceive and parse, the more lifelike the mosaic we make of them.
Like explorng what the world haa to offer
The twenty-two-year-old Kepler, studying to enter the clergy, wrote a dissertation about the Moon,
Still think its so weird that ppl in tthe urrh were so tie wiith science baack then
Kepler’s radical ideas rendered him too untrustworthy for the pulpit.
Thirty Years’ War, the deadliest religious war in the Continent’s history—life
royal mathematician to the Holy Roman Emperor.
Huh yhat wa a job
“The celestial machine,”
a job endowed with Europe’s highest scientific prestige, though primarily tasked with casting horoscopes for royalty;
science fiction patron saint Ray Bradbury
Yass
intimates
somnolence,
inculpation
In Germany, some twenty-five thousand were killed.
"witcfhes" burbed
To do this, Kepler had to project himself onto Mars with an empathic leap of the imagination. The word empathy would come into popular use three centuries later,
conquest of a greater truth.
fecund
duchy.
But interpretation invariably reveals more about the interpreter than about the interpreted.
Whatever the case, they immediately took the story to be not fiction but autobiography.
My own sense is that one aided the other, as those who stand to gain from the manipulation of truth often prey on those bereft of critical thinking.
True
Katharina’s memory was astonishing—she recalled in granular detail incidents that had taken place years earlier.
I wonder what primary sources shh reaad to decide thiss
Kepler set out to disprove each of the forty-nine “points of disgrace” hurled against his mother, using the scientific method
being stretched on a wheel—a
Plutarch pointed out that the idea of life in saltwater seems unfathomable to air-breathing creatures such as ourselves, and yet life in the oceans exists.
In writing about the takeoff of his imaginary spaceship, for instance, he makes clear that he has a theoretical model of gravity factoring in the demands that breaking away from Earth’s gravitational grip would place on cosmic voyagers.
No inactive persons are accepted…no
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Emily Dickinson would write in a poem the central metaphor of which draws on Kepler’s legacy: Each that we lose takes part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.
So sadddddd
policy change and cultural change are hardly the same thing,
Legitt
parochialism.
unmoor
Earth-dwellers are devoid of reason.
A so gret
Galileo, who was right about so much, was also wrong about so much—something
nuanced appreciation without idolatry.
Also legit
“That concept is completely repugnant to my mind,”
I bneeed no nsay this more!
He hoped that by seeing the absurdity of the lunar people’s belief that the Moon is the center of the universe, the inhabitants of Earth would have the insight and integrity to question their own conviction of centrality.
where he bought a famished mare as bony as himself. The two fragile creatures rode a hundred kilometers
The Copernican model was the first major idea to challenge our self-importance.
mannish women like hens that crow.”
Wowwwwww
just because it is the law of her nature.
her ignorant beliefs and behaviors taken for the work of evil spirits, her social marginalization as a widow—was the fact that she had never benefited from the education her son, as a man, had received.
I mean i feel like education context for the world
but the consequences of her social standing in a world that rendered its opportunities for intellectual illumination and self-actualization as fixed as the stars.
daguerreotype.
coruscating
