German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a solar ...

Of all the patriarchs of science, Johannes Kepler is the least known. We often talk of Isaac Newton and his law of universal gravity (and laws of motion, and the calculus, and laws of optics), of ...

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: ...

Johannes Kepler's 442nd birthday is celebrated in today's Google Doodle. The illustration shows the famous astronomer with a small blue planet orbiting both his face and the sun in the centre of the ...

1604: Johannes Kepler first lays eyes on the star that will eventually bear his name. It is the last confirmed supernova to be observed in our galaxy. The German astronomer was not the first to see ...

This chart, from around 1660, shows the signs of the zodiac and a model of the solar system with Earth at the centre. For decades or even centuries after Kepler clearly demonstrated that not only is ...

Montblanc’s Maison Artisan Atelier in Hamburg, Germany, has been hitting it out of the park lately with over-the-top writing instrument designs (with prices sometimes exceeding $1 million) bearing ...

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