JOHANNES KEPLER: HIS WAY TO FAME
S. B. Bondarenko
Kursk State University, 33, Radishcheva st., Kursk, 305000, Russia
Keywords: наука, методология, звезда, планета, орбита, эллипс, наблюдение, измерение, индукция, science, methodology, star, planet, orbit, ellipse, observation, measurement, induction
Abstract
Basing on the analysis of physical, astronomical, mathematical and philosophical facts, the article explains why neither Kepler’s predecessors, nor his contemporaries could discover the laws of planetary motion. The generalization of a concrete historical material helps to make evident why in the Antiquity (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Archimedes, Aristarchus, Apollonius, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, etc.), the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Nicholas of Cusa, Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Ramus, Giordano Bruno, Tycho Brahe, Galilei, etc.) scientists failed to do it. The author proves the approach to understanding and explaining Kepler’s scientific work which bases on the idea of various types of induction by Leonardo da Vinci, G. Galilei, F. Bacon, etc.) and explains why it was Kepler who developed the inductive method of calculation which made possible to discover the laws of planetary motion.
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