Kepler's principal goal was to explain the relationship between the existence of five planets (and their motions) and the five regular solids. It is customary to sneer at Kepler for this. It is instructive to compare this with the current attempts to 'explain' the zoology of elementary particles in terms of irreducible representations of Lie groups.
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