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...
An Important Book: Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters"An Important Book: Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters." The Journal of Higher Education, 23(6), pp. 337–338doi:10.1080/00221546.1952.11778014Edmund M. SpiekerThe Journal of Higher Education...
Described by the German philosopher Emmanuel Kant as the "most acute thinker ever born", Johannes Kepler entered this world, prematurely, 450 years ago, on 27 December 1571. Small and graceful, with dark eyes and black-hair, yet sickly, this child would become a renowned astronomer, mathematic...
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
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