Johannes Kepler
Appearance
Johannes Kepler | |
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Portrait of Kepler by an unknown artist, 1610 | |
Born | December 27, 1571 Free Imperial Ceety o Weil der Stadt, Haly Roman Empire |
Dee'd | 15 November 1630 Free Imperial Ceety o Regensburg, Haly Roman Empire | (aged 58)
Residence | Württemberg; Styrie; Bohemie; Upper Austrick |
Naitionality | German |
Alma mater | Tübinger Stift, Varsity o Tübingen |
Kent for | Kepler's laws o planetar motion Kepler conjectur Rudolphine Tables |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy, astrology, mathematics an naitural filosofie |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Maestlin |
Influences | Nicolaus Copernicus Tycho Brahe |
Influenced | Sir Isaac Newton |
Signatur |
Johannes Kepler (27 December, 1571 – 15 November, 1630), a kenspeckle chiel in the scientific revolution, wis a German astronomer, mathematician an astrologer. He is best kent for his laws o planetary motion, pit furth in the twa beuks Astronomia nova an Harmonices Mundi.
Kepler wis a professor o mathematics at the Varsity o Graz, court mathemateician ti Emperor Rudolf II, an coort astrologer ti General Wallenstein. Aerlie in his career, Kepler wis an asseistant ti Tycho Brahe. Kepler's career wis at the same time as Galileo Galilei's ane, an thay correspondit.[1]
He is whiles cried "the faremaist theoretical astropheesicist", atho Carl Sagan cried him the hindmaist scienteific astrologer forbye.
Fremmit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Annotation: Posner Family Collection in Electronic Format Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine Harmonices mvndi The Harmony of the Worlds in fulltext facsimile in Latin
- Full text o Kepler Archived 2004-10-09 at the Wayback Machine bi Walter W. Bryant, frae Project Gutenberg
- Kepler and the "Music of the Spheres"
- Johannes Kepler Directory Archived 2005-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
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