They were also great astronomers, and El Castillo is the perfect marriage of these two sciences. (chichenitzaruins.org)
It is telling that the great astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler held the title of «Imperial Mathematician» in Prague, whereas Galileo, when accepting a position at the Medici court, insisted his title be «Mathematician and Philosopher to the Grand Duke.» (firstthings.com)
Like Johannes Kepler, the great astronomer for whom he has much admiration, Gingerich holds that «a staunch belief in supernatural design» does not contradict good scientific practice, even when science limits itself to tracing only natural causes, in a religiously neutral fashion, as Gingerich believes it must. (firstthings.com)