Kepler
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1. Kepler - Noun
2. Kepler - Proper noun
Meaning
German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)
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Astronomers observed these changes, called transit timing variations, with the NASA Kepler space telescope, which detected the precise times when Kepler-88 b crossed (or transited) between the star and the telescope.
An injury to captain Kepler Wessels meant Cronje was captain for the final day of the match.
As a physical basis, Kepler drew by analogy on William Gilbert's theory of the magnetic soul of the Earth from De Magnete (1600) and on his own work on optics.
But without the significantly more accurate data of Tycho's observatory, Kepler had no way to address many of these issues.
By 1624, however, the escalation of those tensions and the ambiguity of the prophecies meant political trouble for Kepler himself; his final calendar was publicly burned in Graz.
By his position as Brahe's assistant, Johannes Kepler was first exposed to and seriously interacted with the topic of planetary motion.