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1609: Johannes Kepler: first two laws of planetary motion. 1610: Galileo Galilei: Sidereus Nuncius: telescopic observations. 1614: John Napier: use of logarithms for calculation. [127] 1619: Johannes Kepler: third law of planetary motion. 1620: Appearance of the first compound microscopes in Europe.
Johannes Kepler publishes his New Astronomy. In this and later works, he announces his three laws of planetary motion , replacing the circular orbits of Plato with elliptical ones. Almanacs based on Johannes' laws prove to be highly accurate.
1619 – Johannes Kepler unveils his third law of planetary motion. [ 4 ] 1665-66 – Isaac Newton introduces an inverse-square law of universal gravitation uniting terrestrial and celestial theories of motion and uses it to predict the orbit of the Moon and the parabolic arc of projectiles (the latter using his generalization of the binomial ...
1619 – Johannes Kepler states his third empirical law of planetary motion, which relates the distance and period of the planetary orbits. [84] 1631 – Pierre Gassendi is the first to observe the transit of Mercury. He was surprised by the small size of the planet compared to the Sun. [85]
Similarly, Ernst Friedrich Apelt—the first to extensively study Kepler's manuscripts, after their purchase by Catherine the Great—identified Kepler as a key to the "Revolution of the sciences". Apelt, who saw Kepler's mathematics, aesthetic sensibility, physical ideas, and theology as part of a unified system of thought, produced the first ...
Johannes Kepler.(1571–1630) Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and 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, influencing among ...
1604 – Johannes Kepler specifies the laws of the rectilinear propagation of light; 1608 – first telescopes appear in the Netherlands; 1611 – Marko Dominis discusses the rainbow in De Radiis Visus et Lucis; 1611 – Johannes Kepler discovers total internal reflection, a small-angle refraction law, and thin lens optics,
Portrait of Johannes Kepler, one of the founders and fathers of modern astronomy, the scientific method, natural and modern science (from Scientific Revolution) Image 13 Detail showing columns of glyphs from a portion of the 2nd century AD La Mojarra Stela 1 (found near La Mojarra , Veracruz , Mexico); the left column gives a Long Count ...