Johannes Kepler

was kepler approach more aristotelean or theoretical

aristotelean

whose works had kepler studied

copernicus

what did he create students at university

horoscopes for other students

what did he witness in 1577

great comet, one of three that brahe had observed

what did kepler feel about heliocentrism

agreed with it

what did kepler argue about god and the universe in cosmic mystery in 1596

insisted that the universe was perfectly designed by god

do rational explanations of the world necessarily lead to a decline in belief in god or the supernatural

no

what flawed feature of copernicus model did kepler dispose of

avoided his reliance on Ptolemaic spheres and epicycles

what did kepler propose in its place

6 layers of 3D shapes nestled together would correspond to the path of the 6 planets

what were keplers laws of planetary motion

1. planets travel in elliptical orbits around the sun

2. planets do not travel at a consistent speed

whose observations contributed to his laws

the works of brahe - astronomia nova

what 2 scientific concepts did kepler combine

philosophy and mathematics

what happened to keplers mother

accused of withccraft in 1617 and imprisioned until 1620

why might that have affected his belief in witchcraft and magic

in an effort to secure her release

what was keplers 3rd law

distance from a planet to the sun cubed is proportional to the time it takes for a planet to complete its orbit, squared

the further a planet is from the sun, the longer it takes to complete its orbit

what couldnt kepler account for

gravity, couldnt comprehend the gravitational pull of the sun

who developed his theory later on

isaac newton

how did kepler view astronomy

he saw astronomy as a religious duty because it would help him understand the world that god created

what does kepler say about god and the universe in harmonices mundi

he believed that god had created the universe to a specific mathematical model

as god was all knowing, the universe he created would have to be faultless

what was the impact of applied mathematics

mathematics went through a revolution of its own

kepler led the way for a new generation of natural philosophers and mathematics and the boundaries between the 2 professions blurred as more knowledge was shared