Another great astronomical genius, Kepler, confirmed this.

This distinct beginning of the new doctrine was bitterly opposed by theologians; they denounced it as one of the evil results of that scientific meddling with the designs of Providence against which they had so long declaimed in pulpits and professors' chairs; they even brought forward some astronomers ambitious or wrong-headed enough to testify that Tycho and Kepler were in error.( 119) (119) See Madler, Himmelskunde, vol.i, pp.

181, 197; also Wolf, Gesch.
d.

Astronomie, and Janssen, Gesch.d.deutschen Volkes, vol.v, p.

350.
Heerbrand's sermon, cited above, is a good specimen of the theologic attitude.