Johannes Kepler and the Songs Without Sound

In 1619, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler published a work he had labored over for twenty years. He called it Harmonices Mundi — The Harmony of the World. Kepler had discovered that the planets move in precise mathematical patterns, and he believed these patterns were nothing less than music — a cosmic song composed by the Almighty Himself. Kepler once wrote, "I was merely thinking God's thoughts after Him."…