Kepler was fascinated with the night sky at an early age of six. The Great Comet of 1577 left him completely spellbound. At age of nine, Kepler observed the lunar eclipse of 1580. He had a deep interest in astrology, though he had many doubts about its laws and foundations. He was shr...
Kepler made it his life's mission to provide that evidence; he saw it as a way to better grasp God's grand design. In the devout times in which Kepler lived, even appeals to logic required divine explanation. In 1594, Kepler took a post teaching math and astronomy in Graz, Austria, ...
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Johannes Kepler, German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. His discoveries turned Nicolaus Copernicus’s Sun-centered system into a dynamic universe, with the Sun actively pushing the planets around in noncircular orbits. Lea
account of theuniversethat contained the mark of divine planning—literally a revelation. Early in the 1590s, while still a student, Kepler would make it his mission to demonstrate rigorously what Copernicus had only guessed to be the case. And he did so in an explicitly religious and ...
Johannes Kepler - Astronomy, Laws, Heliocentrism: The ideas that Kepler would pursue for the rest of his life were already present in his first work, Mysterium cosmographicum (1596; “Cosmographic Mystery”). Kepler had become a professor of mathematics