Johannes Kepler (/ˈkɛplər/; German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ, -nɛs -] ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer...
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supernovae, it was named for Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer who described it in De Stella Nova. Visible to the naked eye, Kepler's Star was brighter at...
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The Johannes Kepler University Linz (German: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, short: JKU) is a public university in Austria. It is located in Linz, the...
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In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619, describe the orbits of planets around the Sun. The...
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be expressed as a Kepler orbit using six orbital elements. The Kepler problem is named after Johannes Kepler, who proposed Kepler's laws of planetary...
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Pythagoreanism, and was later developed by 16th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler did not believe this "music" to be audible, but felt that it could...
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Leonberg, Württemberg, who was the mother of the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. She was accused of witchcraft in 1615, but was defended by her son...
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Copernican Revolution (section Johannes Kepler)
University Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-8018-9656-9. Redd, Nola (May 2012). "Johannes Kepler Biography". Tech Media Network. Retrieved October 23, 2013. Rushkin...
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The Kepler conjecture, named after the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a mathematical theorem about sphere packing in three-dimensional...
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Somnium (novel) (redirect from Somnium (Kepler))
a novel written in Latin in 1608 by Johannes Kepler. It was first published in 1634 by Kepler's son, Ludwig Kepler, several years after the death of his...
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In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra. They may be obtained by stellating the regular convex dodecahedron and...
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Automated Transfer Vehicle (section Johannes Kepler)
important European figures in science and engineering: Jules Verne, Johannes Kepler, Edoardo Amaldi, Albert Einstein, and Georges Lemaître. Following several...
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after the famous German mathematician Johannes Kepler, with the institution taking on the name Johannes-Kepler-Polytechnikum. It was intended to enable...
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discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, the spacecraft was launched into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit...
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Astronomia nova (category Works by Johannes Kepler)
book, published in 1609, that contains the results of the astronomer Johannes Kepler's ten-year-long investigation of the motion of Mars. One of the most...
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Golden ratio (section Kepler triangle)
Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose...
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The Johannes Kepler ATV, or Automated Transfer Vehicle 002 (ATV-002), was an uncrewed cargo spacecraft built to resupply the International Space Station...
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Look up Kepler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was a key figure in the scientific revolution. Kepler may also refer to:...
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Harmonices Mundi (category Works by Johannes Kepler)
The Harmony of the World, 1619) is a book by Johannes Kepler. In the work, written entirely in Latin, Kepler discusses harmony and congruence in geometrical...
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Mysterium Cosmographicum (category Works by Johannes Kepler)
book by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, published at Tübingen in late 1596 and in a second edition in 1621. Kepler proposed that the distance relationships...
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expression can be traced back to 1615, when it first appears in a book by Johannes Kepler as the Latin: annus aerae nostrae vulgaris (year of our common era)...
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Fixed stars (section Johannes Kepler)
as being contained in a fixed sphere at the boundary of the cosmos. Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was a devoted Copernican, following Copernicus's models...
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700 series and GeForce 800M series. The architecture is named after Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician and key figure in the 17th century scientific...
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Tycho Brahe (section Relationship with Kepler)
Jizerou. Prior to his death in 1601, he was assisted for a year by Johannes Kepler, who went on to use Tycho's data to develop his own three laws of planetary...
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cited ancient pedigrees for their innovations. Copernicus, Galileo, Johannes Kepler and Newton all traced different ancient and medieval ancestries for...
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after Johannes Kepler, but can be found in earlier sources. Although some sources claim that ancient Egyptian pyramids had proportions based on a Kepler triangle...
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Celestial mechanics (section Johannes Kepler)
contemporary discussions of the physical causes of the planets' motion. Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was the first to closely integrate the predictive geometrical...
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paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur (1604), the astronomer Johannes Kepler argued that the spreading of light from a point source obeys an inverse...
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In celestial mechanics, a Kepler orbit (or Keplerian orbit, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler) is the motion of one body relative to another...
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southeast is the crater Encke. Kepler is named for the 17th century German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most notable for the prominent...
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