Mr. Johannes Kepler.
Kepler and his colleague has.
Kepler Many do not know, but it was a great German astronomer and mathematician who was instrumental in the scientific revolution. Without it, we would not be heading to Pluto or exploring Mars. Clearly we would not be so without Sir Isaac Newton's birthday today and should have dedicated this post, but Newton ... not fucked as fucked Kepler when he made his discovery, so I have more affection for Kepler.
Kepler was born into a Protestant family was going apurillos. His father was a mercenary for the Duke of Württemberg and his mother, who ran a rooming house and had knowledge of herbolística, dedicating himself to trying to cure the staff. Later, accuse her of witchcraft by this fact.
of weak constitution, Kepler was a sickly kid, and that 3 years old he contracted smallpox. This will weaken your vision and make a little hypochondriac. From little guy liked to surprise guests at the home of his mother with his knowledge of mathematics. Already 5 years old, her mother arouse interest in astronomy by a comet passing by. With 9 years old, his father taught him a lunar eclipse.
The older, Kepler entered the University of Tubingen, There, start first by studying ethics, dialectics, rhetoric, Greek, Hebrew, astronomy and physics, and then later theology and human sciences. He was a speck of becoming Lutheran minister, but he could the mysteries of the universe.
limits at this time comes science and religion were very, very diffuse, being almost the same thing. Kepler resolved this pastiche religious / scientific. But it cost him his own. If you liked one thing Kepler were the platonic solids, perfect shapes, conceptual, which as we all should know is 5. The tetrahedron, the hexahedron (also known as Frinkaedro or Cube), the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron.
The 5 Platonic Solids.
These bodies greatly fascinated by Kepler, religious man to the bone, who thought he had found a deep and mystical connection between these bodies and the 5 planets known at that time. Curious coincidence, 5 planets, 5 platonic solids. Kepler thought he had found the key to heaven, was clear, the planets, the sun, all the platonic solids, were related in such a way that they were embedded within another in a very precise and very mathematical. This idea haunted him for many years, for many many years. The idea that God had set the heavens in this way was a logical thought at the time, in which it was thought that planets were contained in glass spheres that moved.
Solar System integrated with the Platonic Solids.
wrote several treatises on the subject and became a bit famosete. He earned his living writing with which astrological almanacs made astrological predictions, like the witch wrote Lola.Los treaties attention of Tycho Brahe, who was the matemátego, forgiveness, imperial mathematician of the time (year 1600). Tycho Brahe was the greatest astronomer of his time. I do not mean to say, but because we had the best equipment and the best data. Basically, this man sat watching the night sky and taking data. Mr. Brahe was the best planetary data collection was at the time. Kepler invited to live in his house to exchange ideas and conociemientos. Kepler was thrilled to learn that these data are sure to find the truth about his model of the sky.
What happens is that Tycho was a type somewhat bizarre. Say I had a golden nose as he lost in his a duel by a mathematical discussion. We also liked a banquet given him a freak to be caught more double cogorza the tower of Pisa. A Kepler did not like that, he just wanted the data.
Tycho Brahe, died a year after Kepler arrived at his humble abode. Good thing it could be done with the data of Tycho, if not ...
Al browse data Tycho, Kepler realized that he had paid particular attention to Mars. Kepler later discovered the reason for this. But first let us reflect on the word planet. Comes from the Greek Metro πλανήτης (planets) which means "Wanderer" or "Tramp." Is a logical description, since the planets are the only celestial objects that appear to move in the sky. And Mars ... Mars was special, not only for being red, but because it made a strange movement. Mars, follows a path in the sky more or less normal, but there comes a moment that seems to move back and then go forward again. This movement disturbed enough to Kepler. Later the more upset, as the most perfect of figures, the circle, did not fit the data, gave a fairly significant error. This could not be. Kepler, religious as they come, deduced that if the world was not perfect, as it was ravaged by wars, hunger and stupidity must have something perfect in God's creation, but no, the orbits were not. There was no room for her beloved Platonic Solids.
He tried all sorts of geometric shapes, ovals, oval, square (just kidding) and nothing, nothing matched. Finally tested the humble ellipse, which, OH, fit perfectly into the data collected by Tycho Brahe. To say that the ellipse was known as Apollonius of Pergamum the named and described in one of his works were saved from the library of Alexandria (burned by Christian intelligence). Look at the luck. If that book had been burned, now none of us would be here as safe, the world would not have advanced so much.
An ellipse, a strange figure geometry, made everything fit perfectly. Kepler had discovered a law that bear his name. Kepler's First Law, which says so.
"The planets have elliptical motion around the Sun, the latter being located in one of the foci of the ellipse.
Kepler's First Law.
This law is fascinating. It seems simple but it is not. This law shows that the facts, are binding on the wishes or beliefs. Kepler had to accept these facts, these observations, which were contrary to their deepest beliefs. Kepler was able to change data or make a trap for any side, but no. Stuck to the truth and accepted as is. He had two balls.
Later, considering the speed of the planets, came to another conclusion, to be known as Kepler's Second Law.
-Planets, on his tour of the ellipse, sweep out equal areas in equal time.
Kepler's Second Law.
This is extremely important. This goes to explain that the speed of rotation of the earth is not always uniform, change depending on the location of the orbit in which it is located. If you are closer to the sun (the perihelion) moves faster than when it is farthest away (in the Aphelion).
Years passed and came to what is perhaps the most important conclucion, Kepler's Third Law.
-The square of the periods of the planets is proportional to the cube of the average distance to the Sun
The latter law would mark a before and after in astronomy. Since possible to predict and unify the motions of the planets. Kepler was the last and the first astronomer astrologer. He took the facts, studied and drew the logical conclusions. Leaving aside the beliefs and superstition. A man. 367
Today is Sir Isaac Newton was born, a great man, but ... much more to admire the effort that Kepler had posed to the view ... that the world is not like the thought. I believe this has happened to us all in varying ways, but Kepler was aimed too high, too high, while believed glimpse the truth of the universe perfect, and somehow ... got it. I think it's a story that deserves to be known by many, and if the account Carl Sagan, hell, it's better! So pay attention! I said!
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