In 1589, Kepler left Maulbronn to study for the clergy at the great university in Tubingen and found it a liberation. Confronted by the most vital intellectual currents of the time, his genius was immediately recognized by his teachers - one of whom introduced the young man to the dangerous mysteries of the Copernican hypothesis. A heliocentric universe resonated with Kepler's religious sense, and he embraced it with fervor. The Sun was a metaphor for God, around Whom all else revolves. Before he was to be ordained, he was made an attractive offer of secular employment, which - perhaps because he felt himself indifferently suited to an ecclesiastical career - he found himself accepting. He was summoned to Graz, in Austria, to teach secondary school mathematics, and began a little later to prepare astronomical and meteorological almanacs and to cast horoscopes.🏁

In 1589, Kepler left Maulbronn to study for the clergy at the great university in Tubingen and found it a liberation. Confronted by the most vital intellectual currents of the time, his genius was immediately recognized by his teachers - one of whom introduced the young man to the dangerous mysteries of the Copernican hypothesis. A heliocentric universe resonated with Kepler's religious sense, and he embraced it with fervor. The Sun was a metaphor for God, around Whom all else revolves. Before he was to be ordained, he was made an attractive offer of secular employment, which - perhaps because he felt himself indifferently suited to an ecclesiastical career - he found himself accepting. He was summoned to Graz, in Austria, to teach secondary school mathematics, and began a little later to prepare astronomical and meteorological almanacs and to cast horoscopes.🏁