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Johannes Kepler

Also called: Kepler

German astronomer who, working from Tycho Brahe’s observations, found the laws of planetary motion, showing that planets move in ellipses

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    1609Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motionauthor

    In his New Astronomy of 1609 Kepler showed that planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus, giving heliocentrism precise mathematical support.

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  • Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796

    The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution