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Kepler, Johannes

Born: 27 Dec. 1571, Weil der Stadt, Germany
Died: 15 Nov. 1630, Regensburg, Germany

Astronomer, Mathematician

Internal documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

• Johannes Kepler, Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works)

External documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

• Extended biographical data
• Biography, relation to Galileo and references
• Biography (in German)
• Biography (in German)
• Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Short biography and references
• Short biography and references
• Short biography and references
• Short biography and references (in German)
• Short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Short biography
• Short biography
• Short biography
• Short biography (in German)
• Short biography and Kepler in Regensburg (in German) (21 Oct 1997: currently not available)
  (Or see this shorter version in English)
• Short biography (in German)
• Very short biography and relation to Galileo
• Very short biography and references
• Very short biography and references
• Very short biography (21 Oct 1997: disappeared ?)
• Very short biography
• Very short biography
• Very short biography and links
• Very short biography and references
• Britannica Online entries
• Kepler's Conjecture Packing Spheres
• Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
  On the history of Kepler's Laws; very brief and popular; includes links.
• Johannes Kepler und die Harmonie der Welt (in German)
• Plauderei und Quiz über Johannes Kepler (in German)
• Neues vom Keplerschen Kugelproblem?, von Michael Gebel (in German)
• Bibliographies and links
• Bibliography (Library of Congress entries for Kepler, Johannes)
• Bibliography (Library of Congress entries for Kepler, Johann)
• Bibliography (ADS entries)
• References (Library of Congress entries for Kepler, Johannes)
• References (Library of Congress entries for Kepler, Johann)
• References (Library of Congress entries for Kepler, Johanan (misspelled))
• References (ADS entries)
• References
• Kepler, Katharina (Library of Congress entries)
• Find more bibliographies about Kepler with Alta Vista
• Kepler-Gesellschaft e.V. (in German)
• Kommission für die Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler
  (Commission for the Publication of the Works of Johannes Kepler)

Search also in:

• Biographical Index to Sky and Telescope by Kevin Krisciunas (Or see here.)
• Planetary Nomenclature Alphabetic Index
• World Biographical Index

Archival sources

• UCSC astronomer discovers 400-year-old manuscript, by Barbara McKenna
  Horoscope authored by Kepler.

Search also in:

• The International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences

Places

• 400 Jahre Johannes Kepler in Graz: Eine Ausstellung am BRG Kepler in Graz (in German)
  Including a biography
• Kepler in Graz (in German)
• Auf den Spuren J. Keplers in Graz (in German)
• Porträt des Johannes Kepler in der Sternwarte Kremsmünster (in German)
• Stationen von Johannes Kepler (in Leonberg) (in German)
• Keplerhaus and other Kepler places, Linz (in German)
• Kepler in Linz (in German)
• Kepler und Linz (in German)
• Griffith Observatory - Astronomers Monument - Kepler, Los Angeles
• Kloster Maulbronn: Kepler, Hölderlin und Hesse lernten in Maulbronn (in German)
• Kepleruv dum - Kepler's house, Prague
• Pomnik Tychona Brahe a Johanna Keplera - Memorial of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, Prague
• Kepler in Regensburg (in German)
• Kepler-Gedächtnishaus, Regensburg (in German)
• Kepler-Gedächtnishaus, Regensburg (in German)
• Kepler-Gedächtnishaus, Regensburg (in German) (21 Oct 1997: currently not available)
  (Or see this shorter version in English)
• Keplerwohnhaus, Regensburg (in German)
• Keplerdenkmal, Regensburg (in German)
• Solar Stairs: Homage to Kepler
  The Levi and Fortuna Eskenazi Sculpture Garden, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• Kepler w Zaganiu 1628-1630 (in Polish)
  Kepler in Sagan (now Zagan, Poland)
• Memorial plaque for Kepler in Zagan (Sagan), Poland (in Polish)
• Memorial plaque for Kepler at the Kepler High School, Zagan (Sagan), Poland (in Polish)
• Kepler-Museum, Weil der Stadt, Germany (in German)
• Keplerdenkmal, Weil der Stadt, Germany (in German)

Namings

• Kepler's equation (Library of Congress entries)
• Kepler's laws (Library of Congress entries)
• Johannes Kepler Volkssternwarte, Steinberg bei Graz (in German)
• Schul- und Volksternwarte "Johannes Kepler", Crimmitschau (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Sternwarte am Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland (in German)
• Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
• Kepler-Oberschule, Berlin, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Chemnitz, Germany (in German)
• Kepler-Gymnasium Freiburg, Germany (in German)
• Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Garbsen, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Hainburg, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Heddesheim, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Ibbenbüren, Germany (in German, English under construction)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Lebach, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Leipzig, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Leonberg, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Lübeck, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Magstadt, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Mannheim, Germany (in German)
• Kepler-Gymnasium Pforzheim, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Reutlingen, Germany (Or see here.)
• Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany (in German)
• Kepler-Seminar für Naturwissenschaften, Stuttgart, Germany (in German)
• Kepler Gymnasium Tübingen, Germany (in German)
• Kepler-Gymnasium Ulm, Germany (in German)
• Johannes-Kepler-Schule, Viersen-Süchteln, Germany (in German)
• Publiczne Gimnazjum Nr 2 im. Jana Keplera, Zagan (Sagan), Poland (in Polish)
  Johannes Kepler High School
• Kepler Mission (NASA)
• Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences, Seattle, Washington, USA
  To be used with caution!
• Kepler-Apotheke, Weil der Stadt, Germany (in German)
• Johannes Kepler Heim, Linz, Austria (in German)

Further links

• Links to WWW sources
• Links to WWW sources
• Inne strony o Janie Keplerze (comments in Polish)
• Find more about Kepler with Alta Vista
• Find more about Kepler with Google

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 28 Jan 1997. Latest update: 18 Feb 2003