Johannus Kepler
Full Name-
Johannes Kepler
Born-
December 27, 1571
Died-
November 15, 1630
He was an assistant to the astronomer Tycho Brahe
- Known For-
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Kepler conjecture
- Rudolphine Tables
- Best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.
- Other Work-
- Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Sacred Mystery of the Cosmos) (1596)
- On Firmer Fundaments of Astrology; 1601
- The Optical Part of Astronomy(1604)
- On the New Star in Ophiuchus's Foot (1606)
- Astronomia nova (New Astronomy) (1609)
- Third-party Interventions (1610)
- Conversation with the Starry Messenger (1610)
- Dioptrice (1611)
- On the Six-Cornered Snowflake (1611)
- Eclogae Chronicae (1615, published with Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo)
- Nova stereometria doliorum vinariorum (New Stereometry of Wine Barrels) (1615)
- Ephemerides nouae motuum coelestium (1617-30)
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
- Epitome astronomiae copernicanae, 1618
- Harmony of the Worlds (1619)
- The Sacred Mystery of the Cosmos, 2nd edition (1621)
- Rudolphine Tables (1627)
- The Dream (1634)
- List of things named after Johannes Kepler
- Directly named for Kepler's contribution to science are Kepler's laws of planetary motion,
- Kepler's Supernova (Supernova 1604, which he observed and described).
- The Kepler Solids, a set of geometrical constructions, two of which were described by him, and the Kepler conjecture on sphere packing.
- In astronomy: The lunar crater Kepler (Keplerus, 1651),
- The asteroid 1134 Kepler (1929),
- Kepler (crater on Mars) (1973),
- Kepler Launch Site for model rockets (2001),
- The Kepler Mission, a space photometer launched by NASA in 2009,
- Johannes Kepler ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle launched to resupply the ISS in 2011).
- Kepler, a high-end graphics processing microarchitecture introduced by Nvidia in 2012.
