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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. The variety and impact of his work made Kepler one of the founders and fathers of modern astronomy, the scientific method, natural science, and modern science. He has been described as the "father of science fiction" for his novel Somnium.
science · German astronomer and mathematician (1571–1630) · naturalist · astrologer · Protestant theologian · mathematician · astronomer · musicologist · physicist · cosmologist · music theorist · philosopher · also Johannes Kepler, John Keppler, Johanes Kepler, Kepler, Keppler, John Kepler
Born 27 December 1571 · Died 15 November 1630 · Q8963
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CNN: Johannes Kepler thought he sketched Mercury orbiting across the sun. What he actually captured has solved a solar mystery
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NDTV: Johannes Kepler's Science Fiction Novel, World's Oldest, To Be Adapted Into Mohiniyattam
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National Catholic Register: Johannes Kepler: Only One Sun
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dw: Johannes Kepler's astronomical legacy
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Forbes: Sky Writing: Montblanc's Homage To Scientist Johannes Kepler
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Tycho Brahe was exhumed by a Dutch-Czech team and his bones, teeth and beard where analyzed for mercury
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Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1996).
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(and is nearing completion in the early 21st century)
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Establishing the Kepler-Kommission in the following year
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“Differential-Geometric Aspects of Dynamics,”
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Studied at Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.
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Studied at Tübinger Stift.
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Studied at University of Tübingen.
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“The Geometry of Kepler and Newton,”
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Died 1630-11-15.
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“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
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“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
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“Vim coeli reserate viri: venit agnita ad usus: Ignotae videas commoda nulla rei.”
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“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
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Born 1571-12-27.
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