Of the patriarchs of science, Kepler is the least known. This injustice should be rectified, for Kepler not only taught us about how the planets... Of all the patriarchs of science, Johannes Kepler is ...

It is the beginning of the 17th century. The idea that theentire cosmos is going around Earth is still prevalent but isshowing its age. A new breed of astronomers is challenging the oldways, and with ...

The fanciful idea of sailing through space on a beam of light — the premise for this week's test flight of the Cosmos 1 solar sail — has been around for centuries. But it's only been in the last few ...

Four centuries ago, Johannes Kepler established three laws of planetary motion that accurately describe how planets in the solar system orbit the Sun. That might be enough for most; however, befitting ...

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PART I: When Giordano Bruno promoted the idea of a Plurality of Worlds, science was clearly against it, as Johannes Kepler took pains to point out. LEFT: “Portrait of Johannes Kepler,” 1620. RIGHT: ...

Johannes Kepler, a 16th-century German astronomer, formulated three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho Brahe's observational data. Kepler's First Law states that planetary orbits are elliptical, ...

A short piece by Aviva Rothman, assistant professor in the Department of History, appeared in an issue of Physics Today. Titled “Johannes Kepler’s pursuit of harmony,” the piece is adapted from ...

Zielona Gora, Poland—The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) arrived in this forested region to serve his last employer exactly 380 years ago—reason enough for some two dozen science ...