Updated 11/05/04
Museum: (new 6/00)
There is a web site for the Kepler Museum in Weil der Stadt by the Kepler-Gesellschaft e. V.
Kepler Supernova: (new 10/04)
October 9, 2004 is the 400th anniversary of the Kepler Supernova, named for Kepler because of his extensive reporting of the event. Here are a number of links to images taken with three of NASA's Great Observatories in the X-ray, visible and infrared.
NASA link Chandra link Hubble link Spitzer linkDrama: (new 6/00)
There is a play on Kepler and Tycho "Reading The Mind of God" by Patrick Gabridge
Sites describing Kepler's Laws
Animations Illustrating Kepler's Laws Also nice history.
Animations Illustrating Kepler's Laws The Observatorium
(Requires browser supporting Java such as Netscape 3.0)Kepler's Laws without calculus Chabot Observatory
Lectures on Kepler's Laws George Mason University, Astronomy 103
Lectures on Kepler's Laws George Mason University, Astronomy 107
20 slide lecture notes on Kepler Univ Ill. Champage-Urbana Physics 150.
Lecture on ellipses and planetary motion Univ Tennessee Astronomy 162
Kepler's Laws The electronic Universe Project Univ of Oregon
Sites with biographies
Short Biography MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive Univ St Andrews. Has several portraits
(Caution: There are only four known portraits done in Kepler's lifetime. I have not been able to definitely identify which are which. The biograghy by Max Caspar discusses the issue at the very end, but does not reproduce them. The cover of the Dover publication by Caspar is a modern drawing. )
Outline Biography Rice University
Short Biography from Knowledge Adventure
Short Biography from Encarta MSN
Not so Short Biography by Galileo Project
Golden Age of Astronomy in Prague
Kepler's House in Linz 1625
Johannes Kepler University-Linz Austria
Kepler Astronomy Picture of the Day
New Astronomy by Kepler, translation by W. H. Donahue, Green Lion Press
Optics by Kepler, translation by W. H. Donahue, Green Lion Press
Weil der Stadt, Kepler's birth place. Click on Sehenswürdigkeiten. Then click on the red dot for marktplatz to see the Kepler monument in Weil der Stadt.
Curator: David Koch 
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