The model of the solar system that Johannes Kepler presented in his mature work had dimension significantly larger than any of the other geocentric, heliocentric, or geo-heliocentric systems on offer in the early part of the seventeenth century. Although by 1630, Kepler’s heliocentric system with its elliptical orbits had become one of the two leading […]

The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLVIII — The Renaissance Mathematicus