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.

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 dynamic universe, …

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 astronomy with …

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 orbits …

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 solar system.

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

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.

Kepler's model to explain the relative distances of the planets from the Sun in the Copernican System. Except for Mercury, Kepler's construction produced remarkably accurate results.

Johannes Kepler 's laws improved the model of Copernicus. According to Copernicus: [3][4] The planetary orbit is a circle with epicycles. The Sun is approximately at the center of the orbit. The …