Watch Kepler in Shorts, Being Bunked
See Kepler in shorts, being de, then rebunked (or just bunked?) and a new hint that the history written about Kepler and HIS discoveries is still being revised – as OUR views change.
Listen to a Short Play About Kepler
This highly unrealistic, overly-condensed but entertaining telling of Kepler’s arrival in Prague to his elevation to imperial mathematician was first broadcast by BBC Radio in 2004. Yes, its Cumberbatch Kepler!
Learn About Kepler’s Theology
Watch how Kepler’s vision of spirit and matter could be unified, his opinion on the validity of astrology and how his pythagorean esoteric philosophy of the world is could be described by some as occult.
Watch Kepler Video Interviews
Watch in awe as Kepler is interviewed by Hillary Clinton and others! Enjoy the costume donned by one such Johannes Kepler and the footage and animations created by these fledgling scientists around the world.
Watch A Kepler Theatre Piece
The Kepler Story is the first theatre piece ever created about the game-changing astronomical discoveries, the losses suffered, obstacles encountered, and the moving epiphanies of this almost-forgotten scientific genius of the modern world. Immersive theatre, which takes place in planetariums and other fulldome and 3D environments, creates an extraordinarily transformative effect on both the minds […]
Watch An Opera of Kepler’s Trial
Kepler is one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived. In 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft in a Lutheran town in Germany (in-part due to Kepler himself claiming her to be a witch in his book the Somnium). The proceedings led to […]
Listen To The Motion of Mars
In this 4 part audio series about the discovery and nature of Mars’ orbit by Dr. Todd Young. In the concluding episode we hear about how Johannes Kepler’s contribution to the motion of Mars arguably sparked the origin of modern astronomy and science. Listen to all 4 episodes – The Motion of Mars The first […]
Read Georgia Uni Kepler Biography
“Johannes Kepler lived between the death of Nicholas Copernicus in 1543 and the birth of
Isaac Newton in 1642.” States John Wilson of Georgia State University in the opening of his biography of the genius mathematician and astronomer.
Read Kepler’s Pictorial Language
In his treatise on optics of 1604 Johannes Kepler contrived a new pictorial language that transcended the inherent dichotomy between universal forms and concrete appearances. Read the book by Raz D. Chen-Morris.
Listen to Kepler on BBC Radio 4
Listen to BBC Radio 4 ‘in our time’ broadcaster Melvyn Bragg discuss the German astronomer Johannes Kepler with David Wootton (Professor of History at the University of York), Ulinka Rublack (Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College) and Adam Mosley (Associate Professor in the Department […]
Read Random Kepler Documents
Find out what connects Kepler’s solids with hedgehogs, discover what some people think Kepler can bring to the world over 400 years after his death and find out about Kepler’s namesake, the name-pinching so-called Kepler Mission – that NASA’s mission to uncover other habitable planets in the Universe. That’s right, here are a collection of […]
Watch Kepler’s Cosmos Videos
Learn about Johannes Kepler’s life and how he changed the way we see the Universe in Video Clips from Carl Sagan’s TV series, “Cosmos”. Sit back and watch Kepler’s life from the cradle to the grave…
Watch Funny Kepler Video Clips
Visit Jo Kepler’s private lab (in the heavens) where SHE describes that it was her 3 laws of planetary motion that inspired Sir Isacc Newton’s Laws of Gravitation. And more…
Listen to a Kepler Audio Interview
Hear a middle school student, Thomas Covington, interview a Johannes Kepler about his early years and his schooling in Weil der Stadt. New Kepler also discusses the current astronomical beliefs of 1590 and 1605 for the Year of Astronomy website.
Browse Quotations By Kepler
Johannes Kepler’s stance on science and religion and church and math is illustrated here with a variety of quotes from the genius mathematician and astronomer.
Learn From Kepler’s Answers com
In 1601 Johannes Kepler became the imperial mathematician to Rudolf II (emperor of the Holy Roman Empire), succeeding Tycho Brahe. Kepler supported the heliocentric theory by Nicolas Copernicus, defending it in his first major work, Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596).
Read The Galileo Project’s Biography
Johannes Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt in southwest Germany. His paternal grandfather, Sebald Kepler, was a respected craftsman who served as mayor of the city; his grandfather was an innkeeper and mayor of the nearby village.
Read a Selection of Kepler Facts
From halting his work of discovering the first universal laws in order to save his mother from being executed as a witch, to having zero students in his class. See a range of Kepler facts
Read Quotations About Kepler
Johannes Kepler’s life and work has prompted lots of interest from not only the fields of mathematics and science but also of theology and faith. See a range quotes about Kepler by a variety of people throughout the ages.
View Kepler’s List of Achievements
As well as formulating the first Universal Laws and correctly describing the universe in terms of science and math – Polymath Johnan Kepler knocked up a huge list of firsts in a range of fields. Take a look…
Learn About Kepler From Wikipedia
Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion and his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and the Somnium..