Even his beloved ”aspects” were to be suspected. From the above quoted text it is obvious that Kepler knew that lunar “houses” and lunar “Zodiac” were totally different than those defined on Earth, and therefore they could not have an absolute meaning. He described no details of the lunar astrology. Hence, if we transfer the imagination to another sphere, everything must be understood in an altered form.” Kepler went no further. I will quote only a fragment most relevant here: “(.) the main features of the entire universe: the twelve celestial signs, solstices, equinoxes, tropical years, sidereal years, equator, colures, tropics, arctic circles, and celestial poles, are all restricted to the very tiny terrestrial globe, and exist only in the imagination of the earth-dwellers. In The Dream Kepler depicted lunar inhabitants, her fauna and flora, and also the lunar astronomy. In 1634, 4 years after Johannes Kepler’s death, his son Ludwig Kepler published The Dream (Somnium), his father’s last book (written before 1610), which described adventures of an Icelandic voyager transported to the Moon by aerial demons. A voyage to the Moon was in fact Kepler’s dream.
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