Kepler, the first true astrophysicist, was born on this day in 1571. The remarkable story of how he wrote the world's first book of science fiction, spent years defending his mother in a witchcraft trial, and in the process became a trailblazing feministhttps://www.brainpickings.org/2019/12/26/katharina-kepler-witchcraft-dream/ …
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The story of Kepler should make you warier of "Consensus Science", and trial of scientific theses by popular opinion. Worshipping the rebellious nature of its claimed founders of the usual excuse for the oppression by the Establishment.
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