On this date in 1571, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Johannes Kepler was born. A key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, where … Continue reading Johannes Kepler