The astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) is one of the founders of modern astronomy. Among other accomplishments, he identified three laws that describe planetary motion.
Kepler was born in a small German town and was educated in a church-school. He had… Read More
Cotton Mather was a puritan minister who wrote a how-to book on strategies to seek out witches. He has a building at Harvard named after him.… Read More