"PM 2Ring" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> For a quick bio and other interesting info, see
> http://kepler.nasa.gov/johannes/

That was interesting. I didn't know any of that before, or had forgotten it 
all. My classes in astronomy were mostly the technical stuff and none of the 
history-- or very little of it anyhow.

Those "firsts" are amazing. Total internal reflection, eh? The guy would 
have done some raytracing for sure then, like someone (oh, was PM 2Ring!) 
said before, that Kepler could have been good with POV-Ray.

I especially didn't know I have him to thank, at least in part, for 
eyeglasses.

Kepler gets well-known for that somewhat bizarre geometric model and most 
people probably don't realize he wasn't just some kind of peculiar person. I 
know I sure do. However, I always admired Kepler for that.

That stuff about him being a religous rebel, in some sense, is apparently 
common among the scientists of the period. But moreso I think the average 
person was probably becoming smarter about things because all this changed 
soon after it became popular. Science, being something dealing in facts, is 
obviously a tough thing to ignore.

Bob

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