Johannes Kepler Quotes


Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.


Citations

Kepler, Johannes. New Astronomy. Translated by William H. Donahue, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 54.

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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
  • Born: December 27, 1571
  • Died: November 15, 1630
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Scientist

Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. These works also provided one of the foundations for Newton's theory of universal gravitation.