Johannes Kepler's Accomplishments

Johannes Kepler

In 1571 the science we knew then would change drastically in the next fifty nine years, due to the birth of Johannes Kepler a German astronomer. His contributions to the science world and his work in the scientific revolution sure didn't go unnoticed. Which is why he should be the face of the Terra, the new world currency debuting in two thousand seventeen. He contributed everything from the three laws of planetary motion to how the tides work, And a lot more other achievements. His education was in germany but he didn't study astronomy, instead he was hoping to become a theologian. A theologian, a person who engages or is an expert in study of the nature Then his life took a major turn and he ended but studying and discovering

He discovered so much and contributed a ton of his research and information to the science community. He also has a lot of discoveries that would later be figured out, like how the tides work for instance. Galileo thought it was due to the position of Earth but Kepler thought differently. He couldn't prove to him that it wasn’t the Earth but he knew it was something else controlling them. He had many other discoveries as well like a new version of Galileo's telescope, the Laws of Area, the appearance of the stars and how the atmosphere affects it, gravity, perception, and Kepler's “Last Theorem”. The “Last Theorem” was an idea of his that stated, that packing equally sized spheres into a container with a certain arrangement it can have a lot higher density than any other arrangement. This idea took over 300 years to figure out, and scientists just figured out what it was about and what it was telling them a couple years ago. Which shows us that even a man who lived nearly 500 years ago is still being talked about and his ideas are still being

He didn’t discover all of them at one though, he figured them out over a span of time. Kepler's three laws of planetary motion were 1. All planets move about the Sun in elliptical orbits, having the Sun as one of the foci. 2. A radius vector joining any planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal lengths of time. 3. The squares of the sidereal periods (of revolution) of the planets are directly proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun. They are very complicated and hard to understand, but these are the basic explanations. His first law explained that the path of the planets about the sun is elliptical in shape, with the center of the sun being located at the middle. His second law described An imaginary line drawn from the center of the sun to the center of the planet will sweep out equal areas in equal intervals of time. Finally his third law said the ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the sun. Those are the more basic version of his 3 laws, they are still a little complicated but they are more simplified than his original