Kepler's dream is really fantastical yet very scientific in its basis and depth. I am not a science major so I found myself mystified at first.It took me a little while to figure out what he was trying to convey. The dream is a highly imaginative work.Kepler dreaming of himself as a youth living in Thule with his mother, who is somehow in touch with spirits from distant lands like Levania.
In his description of the places and details of Levania which is really a geographical description, he also lists out his own astronomical findings. He describes the activities of the sun and the earth if one saw them from the moon.He talks about day and night,the seasons and even the hemispheres .Kepler was the one to discover that the path of the earth is elliptical and not circular. The example of the moon is really to explain to laypersons the motion of the earth.
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