Kepler's Philosophy of Mathematics

The dark night sky paradox was first posed by the english copernican thomas diges. Kepler felt vindicated, rather than undermined, when the invention of the telescope facilitated the sighting of previously invisible stars. He remained convinced that geometrical perfection is the key to standing astronomy as a discipline that fuses mathematics with physics. The arrangement in terms of platonic solids has the force of necessity, he says, because they partake of divine archetypes.