Kepler Facts

Enjoy some interesting trivia about the famous mathematician and astronomer, Johannes Kepler. Read on some Kepler Facts!

• Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in the town of Weil der Stadt, Germany.

• Kepler’s believed in a Sun-centered Solar System.

• Kepler was the first astronomer to observe the SN 1604 star go supernova in October 1604.
  

  “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
  ― Johannes Kepler

• Kepler discovered the eyeglass for near-sightedness as well as far-sightedness.

• Johannes Kepler was the inventor of the Keplerian Telescope which was an upgraded version of the refracting telescope.

• This brilliant astronomer was the first to discuss how the moon affects tides.

• Kepler’s works Astronomia Nova, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonices Mundi formed the basis for Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity.

• Kepler created horoscopes for his fellow students.

• Johannes Kepler correctly predicted the invasion by the Turks, the peasant uprising and a very cold winter in 1595.

• He developed the Rudolphine Tables which contained calculations using logarithms.

• Kepler’s book “Stereometrica Doliorum” was the foundation of integral calculus.

• Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei were contemporaries and they often put forth contradictory theories.