Kepler: Celebrating the work of a neglected astronomer
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023600
The Economist : Much has been made of the 400th anniversary this year of Galileo pointing a telescope at the Moon and jotting down what he saw (even though this had previously been accomplished by an Englishman, Thomas Harriot , using a Dutch telescope).But 2009 is also the 400th anniversary of the publication by Johannes Kepler , a German mathematician and astronomer, of " Astronomia Nova ."This was a treatise that contained an account of his discovery of how the planets move around the Sun, correcting Copernicus’s own more famous but incorrectly formulated heliocentric description of the solar system and establishing the laws for planetary motion on which Isaac Newton based his work.
