The STAR of BETHLEHEM

and Johannes Kepler

Before Johannes Kepler, shown on the left, suggested that the “Star of Bethlehem” might have

been a            conjunction of planets,        most attributed it to a group of angels.

     

    The first astronomer in modern times who drew attention to the great conjunction in the year 7 BC as the Star of Bethlehem was Johannes Kepler.     He recognized in this stellar              event that celestial occurrence which  the evangelist Matthew describes as the cosmic accompaniment to the birth of Jesus.    The Three Magi directed their gaze towards a stellar event in the heavens during the time of His birth.  Kepler interpreted the corresponding passage in the Gospel of Matthew astronomically.

     He also admittedly supposed that at the same time a new star, a Nova, could have appeared, because a Nova he had observed himself in the year 1604, came after a great conjunction.

 

Johannes Kepler (German:  December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revelution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

During his career, Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg. Later he became an assistant to astronomer Tycho Brahe, and eventually the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II. He was also a mathematics teacher in Linz, Austria, and an adviser to General Wallenstein. Additionally, he did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting telescope (the Keplerian Telescope), and mentioned the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei.

Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a strong division between astronomy (a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of natural philosophy). Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his work, motivated by the religious conviction and belief that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan that is accessible through the natural light of reason. Kepler described his new astronomy as "celestial physics", as "an excursion into Aristotle's Metaphysics," and as "a supplement to Aristotle's On the Heavens," transforming the ancient tradition of physical cosmology by treating astronomy as part of a universal mathematical physics.

 

 

 “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way."

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