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GESELLSCHAFT e.V.KEPLER

Kopfbereich in Silber ?The Kepler-Museum Birthplace of Johannes Kepler in Weil der Stadt

Illustration front side: The Temple of Astronomy - as depicted in a sketch by Johannes Kepler -(Engraving from the Rudolphine Tables, Nürnberg 1627)and the observation satellite Hipparcos of the ESA, 1989-1993

www.kepler-portal.de

Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)

Discoverer of the laws of planetary motionImperial MathematicianCo-founder of modern science

Opening Times:Thursday and Friday.......... 10am to noon, 2pm to 4pmSaturday................................ 2pm to 4pmSunday ................................. 2pm to 5pm(closed on Dec. 24th to 26th, Dec. 31st, Jan. 1st and the Sunday of the Carnival Parade in Weil der Stadt in February or March)

Admission Prices:Adults € 3,00 per personPupils and students € 1,00 per personGuided tour € 20,00

Guided tours on special request:Guided tours on special request are also welcome outside official opening times. Please contact: anfrage@kepler-museum.de

Office: Town Hall, POB 1120, 71263 Weil der Stadt Phone: +49 (0)7033 – 521 131, Fax – 521 122 E-Mail: stadt@weil-der-stadt.de

Bank: Vereinigte Volksbank AG, Weil der Stadt, IBAN: DE66603900000041276000 BIC Code: GENODES1BBV

¾ Spreading knowledge of Kepler’s life and work and promoting awareness of his achievements in the “Scientific Revolution” of the 17th century

¾ Maintaining and running the Kepler-Museum in Kepler’s Birthplace

¾ Promoting public lectures about historical and natural-scientific subjects

¾ Administering the Kepler-Archive and the Kepler-Library

¾ Awarding the Kepler-Prize for projects in line with Kepler’s comprehensive legacy in science and the arts to talented pupils of the Kepler-Gymnasien in the EU

¾ Maintaining and running the Johannes-Kepler-Observatory in Weil der Stadt

¾ Cooperation with the universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen and other institutions

¾ Maintaining active contact with those cities associated with Kepler´s life and work

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Town Hall Weil der Stadt, Office

Tel. +49 (0)7033 - 521 131 or +49(0)7033 – 6586

www.kepler-museum.de

www.kepler-portal.de

Kepler-Museum, Keplergasse 2, 71263 Weil der Stadt, Germany How to get to the museum: By public transport: S-Bahn Stuttgart to Weil der Stadt By car: B 295 from Stuttgart / Leonberg

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Johannes Kepler - together with Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Isaac

Newton and other like-minded men of learning - laid the foundations

for modern science in the 17th century. Kepler’s “Astronomia Nova” and

“Harmonice Mundi” as well as Galileo’s “Nuova Scienzia” became the

cornerstones of scientific research for generations to follow them.

Johannes Kepler has left us a legacy of impressive scientific diversity.

Not only did he pioneer in astronomy by discovering the laws of

planetary motion and making astronomy become an integral part of

natural philosophy but he also made unique contributions to optics,

mathematics and music theory.

Already in the early 17th century he developed ideas in his posthumously

published manuscript “Somnium” on how man could get to the moon.

His vision of interplanetary travel elaborated in fascinating detail in this

treatise, provided an important basis for mankind’s dream to come true

in the 20th century.

As well as being a brilliant researcher, Johannes Kepler’s unremitting

striving for religious tolerance and living a life in harmony with his

contemporaries earned him great respect. He became a symbol of

unbiased and responsible research, opposed to dogmatism of any

kind, answerable only to truth and ethics.

Kepler invented the astronomical telescope – known as the Keplerian

telescope to the present day – as well as e.g. the gear pump, which is

widely used even today.

Kepler’s birthplace was set up as a museum by the Kepler-Gesellschaft

e.V. at the historic marketplace in Weil der Stadt to honour the

memory of this great astronomer and scientist. The present exhibition

follows a complete renovation of the building and an extension of the

showrooms. It was carried out under the guidance of an

interdisciplinary team of experts who put a conception into effect

that pays tribute to the didactics and requirements of modern

museums.

Among the many exhibits the visitor will find original documents of

Kepler’s main works, letters written or addressed to him, tableaus and

illustrations depicting his eventful life and career and his long and

exhausting travels as well as important instruments and objects of

interest of Kepler’s time.

Modern techniques of presentation like computer- and sound

simulations as well as video shows help to visualize Kepler’s unique

discoveries.

Visitors from abroad will appreciate the English explanations of the

documents and objects on exhibition.