[UA] Kepler

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> The class was a while back, and I've got a lousy memory anyhow, but I
believe Kepler was the one who hoped to find that the distances between the
orbits of the planets would prove to be proportionate to the exterior and
interior radial spheres formed by Platonic solids.  (Platonic solids are
forms created from equilateral planes made into solids without gaps.  To you
and me, they're most familiar as the d4, d6, d8, d12 and d20.  D10 doesn't
count because its faces are not equilateral.)  He thought that this would
pretty much prove that there was a divine architect whose plan was
iteratively reflected on all levels of creation.  There was also something
in there about trying to find the music of the spheres, but I can't remember
how that worked... but it was all his mystic-christian stuff that left him
open to the notion of elliptical orbits.
>
> -G.
>
> Plus, didn't he have a metal nose?

I think he did. I know what my next dipsomancer is going to use as his siggy
vessel... :-)

Gar
http://www.mytholder.f2s.com


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