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Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler

German astronomer who found that planets move in ellipses, served Rudolf II as imperial mathematician and published three laws.

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27 Dec 1571 O.S. – 15 Nov 1630

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Wikidata Q8963

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Appears in11 items

  • Halley’s Comet Through History1 item
    • Kepler watches from Prague · observer27 Oct 1607
  • Telescopes: Galileo to JWST2 items
    • Sidereus Nuncius13 Mar 1610
    • Kepler’s Dioptrice · author1611
  • The Islamic Golden Age1 item
    • Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Opticsc. 407 AH
  • The Scientific Revolution7 items
    • Kepler in PragueFeb 1600
    • Tycho Brahe dies in Prague24 Oct 1601
    • Kepler’s supernova17 Oct 1604
    • Kepler’s Astronomia Nova · author1609
    • The Thirty Years’ War23 May 1618
    • Kepler’s third law · author1619
    • Maria Cunitz’s Urania Propitia1650

Mentioned in1 item

  • The Scientific Revolution1 item
    • Napier’s logarithms1614 O.S.

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