An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

English-French-Persian

فرهنگ ریشه‌شناختی اخترشناسی-اخترفیزیک

Homepage  Preliminaries  Abbreviations  Acknowledgments  References 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Kepler
  کپلر  
Kepler (#)
Fr.: Kepler  

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), a German mathematician and astronomer and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the Sun in elliptical orbits;
gave three fundamental laws of planetary motion, and also did important work in optics and geometry.