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The Kepler Idea: Circles and Stars
Johannes Kepler was one of the most important scientist of the Scientific Revolution in the middle ages. Kepler was a German astronomer and mathematician of the late 1600's and early 1700's. He proved all the planets orbit the sun, and not the sun orbiting the earth. Kepler created three laws, in which he describes the governing motion of the planets. He was committed passionately to circles. He also became the founder of modern optics. Kepler did not face that many democratic challenges, such as many others did. His achievements proved many things in which today's modern scientists use.
Kepler discovered one of the most famous discoveries of astronomy. Planets orbit the sun. The sun does not orbit the planets. He posed a question of the planetary motion. Later, Newton took to answer. Kepler also came across the paths of planets. Their path was elliptical, not circular. Planets move in ellipses with the sun at one focus. Prior to this in 1602,......

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