Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to consider the questions:
1. How did Kepler come to write about the Star of Bethlehem? 2. What conclusion did he come to about it? 3. Who was the first to suppose that it might have been merely a conjunction of planets? 4. By whom was this hypothesis first attributed to Kepler? 5. Were there planets so close in 7 or 6 B.C. that they could be mistaken for a single star?- Publication:
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Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
- Pub Date:
- December 1937
- Bibcode:
- 1937JRASC..31..417B