Kepler's Laws In today's world, we have very advanced technology. There have been many new technological and medical advancements as we entered the new century. The Internet allows us to shop, talk, and find valuable information on very scarce topics, and even check stocks with a simple click of a button. Medical advancements had recently been discovered on "The Human Genome Projects," the first gene was mapped and within a short period of time we will have mapped out all the genes in a human chromosome. This is absolutely amazing because we will now be able to reveal the many causes of serious deadly diseases. Throughout the years, we have gained the technology to send astronauts into space to gather new information about our universe. However, without all of this technology that we have today, a man was able to discover a great deal of information about our universe. This man's name was Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in the village of Leonberg outside the small town of Weil der Stadt, in Swabia. His father was a mercenary soldier and his mother the daughter of an innkeeper. Johannes was their first child out of seven children. His father left home for the last time when Johannes was five, and is believed to have died in the war of the Netherlands. As a child, Johannes lived with his mother in his grandfather's inn. When Kepler was a child he went to a local school and then at a nearby seminary. Later on in his education, he enrolled at the University of Tubingen, which is now a bastion of Lutheran orthodoxy. During his lifetime he formulated three laws of planetary motion. However, he did not set out at first to formulate these three laws, instead he was originally working on und... ... middle of paper ... ... the planets. Much of the work done in modern astronomy is still based on Kepler's three laws of planetary motion. He was very advanced for his time, and if he had not made such great discoveries the human race would have been far behind in the exploration of outer space. Bibliography: Works Cited 1) http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html. Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion 2) http://chabut.cosc.org/~arf/Kepler.Newton/intro.html. Johannes Kepler 3) http://es.rice.edu/Es/humsoc/Galileo/People/Kepler.html. Johannes Kepler 4) Fleisher, Paul. Secrets of the Universe. McMillan : New York, 1987. 5) Silverberg, Robert. Four Men Who Changed the Universe. GP Putnam's Sons : New York, 1968. 6) Baker, Robert and Fredrick, Laurence. Astronomy Ninth Edition. Litton Educational Publishing: New York, 1971.
Who were the four key figures who contributed to disenchanting the view of the universe?
1) A stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it; 2) Force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion is proportional to the force applied; and 3) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. (Bio.org, 2017) He invented the optics which he helped to inspire the build of the
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The first record of the movement of the planets was produced by Nicolaus Copernicus. He proposed that the earth was the center of everything, which the term is called geocentric. Kepler challenged the theory that the sun was the center of the earth and proposed that the sun was the center of everything; this term is referred to as heliocentric. Kepler’s heliocentric theory was accepted by most people and is accepted in today’s society. One of Kepler’s friends was a famous person named Galileo. Galileo is known for improving the design and the magnification of the telescope. With improvement of the telescope Galileo could describe the craters of the moon and the moons of Jupiter. Galileo also created the number for acceleration of all free falling objects as 9.8 meters per second. Galileo’s and Kepler’s theories were not approved by all people. Their theories contradicted verses in the bible, so the protestant church was extremely skeptical of both Galileo and Kepler’s
In summary, this paper will discuss the Kepler spacecraft, its mission, and the results of its mission. The Kepler mission has, thus far, provided invaluable information regarding extrasolar planets and systems. Although Kepler can no longer continue its primary mission, Second Light has presented researchers the opportunity to salvage Kepler’s functions and add to the set of data Kepler has already collected.
Nicolas Copernicus died never knowing what a revolution he made in the scientific world. Mathematicians and scientist like Ptolemy, Newton, and Brahe supported his heliocentric theory. He was born in Poland on February 19th, 1473 the baby of four children. His father was Nicholas Copernicus Sr. died in 1483 when Copernicus was at the young age of ten. He and his sibling went to live with his Uncle Lucas Waltzenrode the bishop of Warmia in Germany. His family’s exceptional wealth allowed him to attend some of the finest schools in Europe. After attending Cracow for mathematics he went to Italy to study canon law. Under the influence of his uncle he become a canon, which is just below a bishop. In Italy he made his first astronomical observation one night with a friend who was a professor of astronomy. Copernicus explored many occupations: a canon, mathematician, and the one he is most known for astronomer.
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...centred universe, like Aristotle, and Ptolemy posed new questions for Copernicus's successors. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and finally Newton would be viewed as the successors to the Copernicus theory, and their contributions would complete the Copernicus revolution. Galileo with his telescope, Kepler with his ellipses, and Newton with his laws of motion and gravity.