In 1611, Johannes Kepler improved on Galileo's design by making one simple change. He replaced the concave lens with a second convex one. As a result, the light rays converge as they exit the ...

Galileo's contemporary Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician, discovered a way to get beyond the magnification ceiling. Instead of a concave lens near the eye, Kepler used a convex lens.

“Johannes Kepler, after whom Kepler’s Laws of Planetary ... “In 1608, he wrote a letter to his friend Galileo Galilei: ‘Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there ...

Further discoveries by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630 ... the major thinkers of the Scientific Revolution (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Descartes) had revealed a universe which seemed like ...

Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along ... only able to do so because it had been predicted earlier by Johannes Kepler. This observation led to a far deeper understanding ...

By the 17th century, famed engineer and astronomer Galileo Galilei refined Copernicus ... It was not until Johannes Kepler introduced the concept of elliptical orbits that scientists could ...