“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.”

About Johannes Kepler

Astronomer • German

Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who was a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, which described the orbits of...