Kepler

"Kepler" by Walter W. Bryant is an early 20th-century biography that tells the extraordinary story of Johannes Kepler, a groundbreaking astronomer whose laws of planetary motion changed how we understand the universe. The book takes you back to a time when old ideas about the cosmos were being challenged, setting the stage for Kepler's revolutionary thinking. Beginning with a look at Kepler's difficult childhood and health problems, the story moves to his important connection with Tycho Brahe, a famous astronomer. When Kepler starts working with Brahe in Prague, he gets access to amazing data that helps him come up with his game-changing theories. The big focus of the book is how Kepler created his three laws of planetary motion which helped prove that the planets revolve around the Sun, rather than the Earth being at the center. The biography also covers Kepler's later life, his relationships with other important people, his personal challenges, and how he became known as one of the most important people in astronomy.