The Astronomer Who Followed the Same Star
In 1604, Johannes Kepler observed a brilliant conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn from his observatory in Prague. The imperial mathematician — the man who would...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 2:1-12.
In 1604, Johannes Kepler observed a brilliant conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn from his observatory in Prague. The imperial mathematician — the man who would discover the laws of planetary motion — found himself captivated not just by the science but by a question: could this same celestial event explain what the Magi saw over Bethlehem? Kepler calculated backward through centuries of astronomical data and proposed that a rare triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurred in 7 BC, visible across the ancient Near East, extraordinary enough to set Persian scholars on a thousand-mile journey westward.…
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