Astronomers (Tycho Brahe, Kopernikus, Kepler, Galilei, Newton, Humboldt, Encke)

Letter from Alexander von Humboldt 17.09.1845 with orig.signature of A.v.Humboldt to a participant (Königliche Hoheit dem Großherzog von Baden,Herzog von Zähringen) of the excursion in august 1845 in the Vulkaneifel in Germany from Berlin to Carlsruhe
Letter from Alexander von Humboldt 17.09.1845 with orig.signature of A.v.Humboldt to a participant (Königliche Hoheit dem Großherzog von Baden,Herzog von Zähringen) of the excursion in august 1845 in the Vulkaneifel in Germany from Berlin to Carlsruhe

Tycho Brahe

Nicolaus Copernicus

 

born  19.02.1473 in Torun (Poland)

died  24.03.1543 in Fromborg (Poland)

 

Copernicus was a young polish astronom who manifested the current heliocentric world picture instead of the geocentric world picture from Tycho Brahe.

 

 

Galileo Galilei

 

born   15.02.1564  in Pisa (Italy)

died   08.01.1642  in Arcetri (Italy)

 

Galilei invented the telescope and observed that Jupiter has 4 moons and that Venus has phases as well so that Venus must go around the sun and not around the earth.

He had huge problems and trouble with the church and has denied his theory to surfive.

 

 

Johannes Kepler

 

born  17.12.1571  in Weil der Stadt (Germany)

died  15.11.1630   in Regensburg (Germany)

 


Johannes Kepler recognized that the planets orbits are elliptic and he discoverd the rules of the planet movements and calculated for the first time exactly this planets orbits in our solar system

(This led to the 3 rules called after his name Kepler).

Isaac Newton

 

born   04.01.1643 in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth (England)

died   31.03.1727 in Kensington (England)

 

 

The scientific basic rules for spaceflights have been founded by the  very wellkown and famous english scientist Isaac Newton in his 1686 published rules of actio and reactio. He proposed this principels to use it for flights in vacuum.

Alexander von Humboldt

 

born  14.09.1769 in Berlin (Germany)

died  06.05,1859 in Berlin (Germany)

 


Alexander von Humboldt, a german scientist, combined his investigations and explorations of the world and the univers with own journeys and he could named as the first european cosmonaut due to his several scientific journeys over 70 years where he explored the world under the view of integrated science and networking.

Johann Franz Encke

 

born  23.09.1791 in Hamburg             (Germany)

died  26.08.1965 in Bezirk Spandau  (Germany)

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