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 …

Nov 11, 2025 · Johannes Kepler, German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. His discoveries turned Nicolaus Copernicus’s Sun-centered system into a …

Aug 30, 2023 · Johannes Kepler (1571 to 1630) was a German astronomer and mathematician most famous for creating what was up to that point the most accurate model of planetary …

Sep 21, 2025 · The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars outside our …

May 2, 2011 · Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) is one of the most significant representatives of the so-called Scientific Revolution of the 16 th and 17 th centuries.

Dec 22, 2023 · A biography of Johannes Kepler, from his troubled childhood to his mission to mathematically formalize Copernicus' heliocentric model by finding divine reasoning within the …

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 …

At 9 years old, Johannes Kepler was inspired by the sight of the moon turning red during a lunar eclipse. He remembered this event clearly for the rest of his life. Image by Brian Paczkowski. …

Dec 4, 2021 · Who was Johannes Kepler and what did he discover? Find out in our guide to the revolutionary German astronomer.

Astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler is best known for his discovery of the three laws of planetary motion, which once and for all removed the earth from its tyrannical reign as the …