Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician born in 1571, is best known for formulating the laws of planetary motion. However, not everyone knows he was also a keen observer of the Sun. In 1607 ...

Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion were based on data collected by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA ...

Kepler was one of the world’s most influential astronomers whose work on optics and the laws of planetary motion would influence the ground-breaking research of Galileo and Newton after him.