Galileo's contemporary Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician, discovered a way to get beyond the magnification ceiling. Instead of a concave lens near the eye, Kepler used a convex lens.

Further discoveries by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630 ... the major thinkers of the Scientific Revolution (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Descartes) had revealed a universe which seemed like ...

“Johannes Kepler, after whom Kepler’s Laws of Planetary ... “In 1608, he wrote a letter to his friend Galileo Galilei: ‘Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there ...

The man at the center of this story is none other than Johannes ... shared even by Galileo — that planetary orbits were perfect circles. That belief was a mirage. Ironically, Kepler’s ...

Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along ... only able to do so because it had been predicted earlier by Johannes Kepler. This observation led to a far deeper understanding ...

That meant “Copernicus, Galileo, (Johannes) Kepler—the big heavy hitters.” Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, a 1543 first edition once owned by a Minorite friar, carries the ...

By the 17th century, famed engineer and astronomer Galileo Galilei refined Copernicus ... It was not until Johannes Kepler introduced the concept of elliptical orbits that scientists could ...