are hooked into the science aspect of the story when Duracotus talks about the connections between his mother and the astronomer's. His mother communed with the moon at night for extended periods of time and, in many ways; the Danish astronomers do the exact same way with their astronomy equipment. Both watch the moon but for very different reasons. Kepler attempts to give us a connection between science and magic, or in some ways witchcraft, within the text literally in the first few pages of the story