Kepler's Cosmology


  • Sun (God) at the center
  • Cosmos (the Holy Ghost) contains:
    • planetary spheres (orbs) are fluid (in Holy Ghost)
    • spaced by platonic solids
    • thickness to contain elliptical orbits
  • Celestial sphere (the Son) bounds all
  • Rotation of the sun moves planets by soul
  • inertia replaces spirit/intellegences/angels
  • soul = force (re elliptical paths)

Revised 17 March 2004 by Ralph