Kepler, who is the most important figure in science, mathematician, astronomer, revealer of the laws helped to understand the universe.
Only there was a small problem, when Kepler discovered those laws he faced the questioning of God and everything that it implied in those years, that is, something that could cost you your life, your reputation, your children and your children’s children.
Not that Kepler literally denied god, for he believed that geometry was one of the reflections of god’s mind; a very widespread thought at the time.
So why so much fuss?
Well, at that time it was difficult to question the church, it all started with his skeleton of the universe based on regular polyhedrons, and the geometric impossibility of the Heptagon, then came his idea of elliptical orbits, something fundamental for the understanding of the universe, and with the ideas that God expressed his language through geometry, it was unthinkable that it was an ellipse and not a perfect circle.
It was in the Philippines on the other side of the world where a Dominican missionary began to study the works of Kepler, pointing him out for the first time as a heretic, and that the opinion of the heptagon questioned the creator.
In response to the ideas and works developed by Kepler, Fray Ignacio Muñoz Pinciano wrote the geometric manifesto in which a method of drawing the Heptagon is described, basically the friar told Kepler that his idea was not only wrong, but that it was a heresy.
According to the friar said heptagon could be achieved through an isosceles triangle, refuting Kepler, or so he believed, the important thing here is that the Dominican ended his work of refutation with the news of the complaint to the holy inquisition about Kepler and his work.
Fray Ignacio maintained that the work of Kepler, conditions one to think that the eternal Wisdom of God was not enough to conceive the figure of the heptagon, and therefore it did not have scientific knowability, based on the principles of the metaphysical school, where what does not have entity, nor essence, nor conditions, nor priorities, cannot exist.
Basically, Fray Ignacio’s geometric manifesto was an apology against the ignorance of the heptagon for being an infinite figure, and this is the point at which Kepler was considered a heretic, since Genesis speaks of creation being finite, the six famous days and the seventh of rest, among all these events Kepler’s three laws arose, which revealed him as the best astronomer of his time, but the weight of the inquisition was always present.
Fortunately, the accusations of heresy did not cost Kepler his life, as on some occasions it used to happen, he died at the age of 58 as a result of a fever, in Bavaria.
