ABSTRACT
Mathematics rewards the mathematicians and their friends in most unexpected and beautiful ways. Johannes Kepler, mathematician and scientist, was born on 27thDecember 1571. Kepler’s laws of planetary motions and through these his modeling of the Solar System were based on his mathematics, but also on his deep religiosity. Behind this was his deep insight into how the world works. Kepler came back to Prague where he would become the imperial astronomer and mathematician after the untimely death of Brahe in October 1601. The following eleven years would be some of the Kepler’s most productive. Kepler said in the dedication of his little treatise on snowflakes that he was “well aware how fond you are of Nothing” and that all goods that can be thought of are nowhere near to the beauty of the understanding of nothingness.
