Maria PopovaKepler was born on this day in 1571. Unbeknownst to most, he wrote the world's first book of science fiction. It landed his mother in a witchcraft trial. He spent six years defending her, all the while revolutionizing our understanding of the universe: https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/26/katharina-kepler-witchcraft-dream/
John Shirley@mariapopova I didn't know Kepler wrote a science fiction novel! Arguably the first! I knew about his mom's witchcraft trial. the whole of Europe, in a way, was forever being tried for either witchcraft or heresy, then.