"Somnium - The Dream" (first sci-fi novel) by Johannes Kepler
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2016
- According to Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, Kepler´s "Somnium" ("The Dream"), written around 1611, was the first science-fiction novel ever. The eminent astronomer Johannes Kepler imagines a trip to the moon and speculates about its inhabitants.
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician and physician. Son of a mercenary that served in the armies of the Duke of Alba and disappeared in exile in 1589, and of a mother suspected of practising witchcraft, Johannes Kepler overcame the effects of an unfortunate and sordid childhood thanks to his tenacity and intelligence.
After studying in the seminars of Adelberg and Maulbronn, Kepler was admitted to the University of Tubinga (1588), where he studied theology and was also a disciple of the Copernican Michael Mästlin. In 1594, however, he interrupted his theology studies by accepting a position as a mathematics teacher in the protestant seminar of Graz.
Four years later, several months after a marriage of convenience, the edict of the Archduke Ferdinand against protestant teachers forced him to abandon Austria and in 1600 he moved to Prague, invited by Tycho Brahe. When Brahe suddenly died the following year, Kepler replaced him as the imperial mathematician of Rudolf II, with the task of completing the astronomic tables started by Brahe and of holding the role of astrology advisor, a role which he used frequently in order to earn a living.
Shocking that there was a time when this was seen as witchcraft.
Well... it literally has daemons in it... so pretty easy to consider it is even today lol
whats shocking is that Kepler had to disguise his science as witchcraft. Somehow legit science was worse than a fictional witchcraft story because it was challenging the notion that the earth didn't move.
I found out about this book today, and I had to read it. I very much appreciate access to an audio copy. Thanks!
Yes, it's legit. As mentioned in Carl Sagan's Cosmos (Episode 3, The Harmony of the Worlds)
thank you bro, this audiobook has a based narrator and this is an awesome book.
I feel for Keplers mom. She had all kinds of crap happen to her sounded like quite a lady. Respect to Keps mom. : )
Hypatia of Alexandria Respect as well.
I learnt about this book from Yoko Taro's latest artwork: Nier Replicant.
I correct you: NieR Re[in]carnation
@@mynameisozymandias7150 I was waiting! Glad that someone actual knows the connection!
Is this legit? Kepler? If so, it's pretty awesome.
its definitely not the first science fiction ever written i know of at least True story by Lucian of Samosata in 2nd century
if you know older let me know
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𓅓The answer rest at the beginning 0:59. When he states his mother Hilda whom tirelessly sought to stop her son from writing the art and informed him that some have the knowings of magical abilities, while some are filled with phonies, maliciously vitiated what the their minds are unable to understand.
( and so he, after the death of his mother dives deep into his new freedom of babbling a string of things and thoughts that's neither here, nor there and with absolute detail so great and widely arranged, and yet disarranged from location to location of highs and lows, nearers, and furthers winding the depths of the deep sea and deep skies. Details that leads any reader into an fantastical abyss that sounds full of all manner of curious everythings when actually it is the dreams of nothingness spilling from the skilled pen of a mad man.)
(-Your welcome!😂🤣 Next time just ask another witch. We enjoy looking into mad man riddles.😆)
In that time: tha moon is flat...
and fits into a univolvaverse pizza box where it's hot!
40:12 The Aristotelian notion of the heavenly bodies that was prevalent at the time taught that the heavens were perfect spheres. Saying, "Nah, haha to the moon people, earth is a perfect sphere and the moon is bumpy" actually was sort of challenging the notion that the moon was smooth.