{"id":735,"date":"2022-07-27T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/?p=735"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:03:23","slug":"keplers-major-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/2022\/07\/27\/keplers-major-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepler’s Major Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Kepler’s Major Works<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Year<\/th>Book<\/th>Subject<\/th>Contribution<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1596<\/td>Mysterium
\nCosmographicum<\/u><\/td>		Use of the 5 perfect solids
\nto explain the solar system.<\/td>		Illustrates 'old' side of Kepler. Since
\nthis idea failed it laid groundwork for
\nhis New Astronomy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1602<\/td>\tDe fundamentia
\nAstrologise Certioribus<\/u><\/td>		Astrology<\/td>Shows Kepler's views on astrology.
\nHe appears to accept judicial but not
\npersonal astrology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1604<\/td>Astronomiae pars
\nOptica<\/u><\/td>		Optics<\/td>Presents a new theory of vision and an
\napproximation to the laws of refraction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1609<\/td>Astronomia Nova<\/u><\/td>Solar System;
\nphysical astronomy<\/td>		Kepler's first law, the planetary orbit of
\nMars is an ellipse, and second law, the radius
\nvector sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
\nIntroduced idea of 'force' into solar system.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1611<\/td>Dioptrice<\/u><\/td>Theory of Telescope<\/td>Theory of lenses and refraction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1615<\/td>Nove Stereometric
\nDoliorum<\/u><\/td>		Mathematics<\/td>Approached the Concepts of infinitesimal
\ncalculus.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1619<\/td>Harmonice Mundi<\/u><\/td>Harmony of the World<\/td>Shows Kepler's harmonic thought. Kepler's
\nthird law<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1621<\/td>Epitome Astronomiae
\nCopernicanae<\/u><\/td>		Physical Astronomy<\/td>Extended Kepler's three laws to the entire
\nsolar system. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1627<\/td>\tRudolphine Tables<\/u><\/td>Astronomy<\/td>Provided most accurate astronomical tables
\navailable. Showed superiority of the Keplerian system based on Tycho's data. Vehicle of
\nacceptance of the New Astronomy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-science","category-study-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}