PART I: When Giordano Bruno promoted the idea of a Plurality of Worlds, science was clearly against it, as Johannes Kepler took pains to point out. LEFT: “Portrait of Johannes Kepler,” 1620. RIGHT: ...

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Three comets (C/1618 Q1, C/1618 V1, and C/1618 W1) were observed in 1618, all visible to the naked eye. C/1618 Q1, first observed in August over Hungary, marks the first known telescopic observation ...

German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) once hypothesized that the universe began on April 27, 4977 B.C., according to History.com. The Big Bang theory did not develop until the 20th century, ...

On select Google home pages, you will see a special animated GIF Doodle, Google logo, for the 442nd birthday of the life of Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was a astronomer, astrologer and ...

The house where Johannes Kepler died in 1620 has served as a museum commemorating the great astronomer since Hans Döllgast renovated Regensburg's old town in the 1960s. In collaboration with local ...

FOR those who date the beginning of modern astronomy from Tycho Brahe, and confine their interest to the subsequent period, there is good excuse. Yet there were great men before that time, who gave ...