Kepler publishes Astronomia nova
ScienceJohannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova, stating his first two laws of planetary motion, including elliptical orbits.
- Date
- 1609 · View on map
- Regions
- Europe
- Importance
- ★★★★★
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