{"id":222,"date":"2026-03-03T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/?p=222"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:33:03","slug":"mon-30-march-2026-at-730-pm-johannes-kepler-1571-1630-his-life-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Mon 30 March, 2026 at 7:30 pm &#8211;\u00a0Johannes Kepler 1571 \u2013 1630: his life &amp; work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Johannes Kepler is remembered, along with Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe and Galileo, as one of the greatest of the Renaissance astronomers.<br>Best known for his laws of planetary motion \u2013 thanks to a pivotal collaboration with de Brahe \u2013 he is seen as having taken the boldest step from that period, leading to the Age of Enlightenment.<br>This talk will focus as much on the personal and family life of this \u2018weird genius\u2019, as on his towering scientific achievements and their impact.<br>Nicholas Pallett BSc has worked mainly as a musician, singer, lyricist &amp; composer in many genres including musical theatre, and in many parts of the world, more recently as a music teacher \/ lecturer for the Bristol &amp; Bath Education Authorities. \u00a0In the fields of Astronomy and the History of Science he considers himself an \u2018amateur\u2019, in the true sense of the word.<br>Booking here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gmail.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=23c78c7fae488189cbba17c40&amp;id=b4063f2a44&amp;e=8b12cedfac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.brlsi.org\/whatson\/johannes-kepler-1571-1630\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes Kepler is remembered, along with Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe and Galileo, as one of the greatest of the Renaissance astronomers.Best known for his laws of planetary motion \u2013 thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bathgermansociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}