Thinking God's Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility

Why is the cosmos intellectually accessible to the human mind?

A host of philosophers, theologians, scientists, and mathematicians of the Great Western Tradition have been struck by the uncanny interconnection between three fundamentally distinct domains of reality: nature, mathematics, and the human mind. This resonance has been discussed since antiquity and often attributed to a transcendent rational source of both material and immaterial aspects of reality. Johannes Kepler, a devout Chris...