Editing Johannes Kepler (section)

=== Cultural influence and eponymy ===
{{Main|List of things named after Johannes Kepler}}
[[File:Kepler-62f with 62e as Morning Star.jpg|thumb|An artist's rendition of [[Kepler-62f]], a potentially habitable [[exoplanet]] discovered using data transmitted by the [[Kepler space telescope]]]]
Kepler has acquired a popular image as an icon of scientific modernity and a man before his time; science popularizer [[Carl Sagan]] described him as "the first [[astrophysicist]] and the last scientific astrologer".<ref>Quote from [[Carl Sagan]], ''[[Cosmos: A Personal Voyage]]'', episode III: "The Harmony of the Worlds".</ref> The debate over Kepler's place in the Scientific Revolution has produced a wide variety of philosophical and popular treatments. One of the most influential is [[Arthur Koestler]]'s 1959 book, ''[[The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe]]'', in which Kepler is unambiguously the hero (morally and theologically, as well as intellectually) of the revolution.<ref>Stephen Toulmin, Review of ''The Sleepwalkers'' in ''The Journal of Philosophy'', Vol. 59, no. 18 (1962), pp.&nbsp;500–503</ref>

A well-received historical novel by [[John Banville]], ''Kepler'' (1981), explored many of the themes developed in Koestler's non-fiction narrative and in the philosophy of science.<ref>William Donahue, "A Novelist's Kepler," ''Journal for the History of Astronomy'', Vol. 13 (1982), pp.&nbsp;135–136; "Dancing the grave dance: Science, art and religion in John Banville's ''Kepler''," ''English Studies'', Vol. 86, no. 5 (October 2005), pp.&nbsp;424–438</ref> A 2004 nonfiction book, ''Heavenly Intrigue'', suggested that Kepler murdered Tycho Brahe to gain access to his data.<ref>[[Marcelo Gleiser]], "Kepler in the Dock", review of Gilder and Gilder's ''Heavenly Intrigue'', ''Journal for the History of Astronomy'', Vol. 35, pt. 4 (2004), pp.&nbsp;487–489</ref>

In Austria, a silver collector's [[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria)#2002 coinage|10-euro Johannes Kepler silver coin]] was minted in 2002. The reverse side of the coin has a portrait of Kepler, who spent some time teaching in Graz and the surrounding areas. Kepler was acquainted with Prince [[Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg]] personally, and he probably influenced the construction of [[Eggenberg Castle]] (the motif of the obverse of the coin). In front of him on the coin is the model of nested spheres and polyhedra from ''Mysterium Cosmographicum''.<ref name="Eggenberg Palace coin">{{cite web | url=http://austrian-mint.at/silbermuenzen?l=en&muenzeSubTypeId=108&muenzeId=336 | title=Eggenberg Palace coin | publisher=Austrian Mint | access-date=9 September 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210659/http://www.austrian-mint.at/silbermuenzen?l=en | archive-date=31 May 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

The German composer [[Paul Hindemith]] wrote an opera about Kepler titled ''[[Die Harmonie der Welt]]'' (1957), and during the prolonged process of its creation he concurrently wrote a symphony of the same name based on the musical ideas he had developed for the opera.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=MacDonald |first=Calum |date=2004 |title=Review of Hindemith: Die Harmonie der Welt |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3878689 |journal=Tempo |volume=58 |issue=227 |pages=63–66 |doi=10.1017/S0040298204210063 |jstor=3878689 |issn=0040-2982}}</ref> Hindemith's work inspired [[John Rodgers (geologist)|John Rodgers]] and [[Willie Ruff]] of [[Yale University]] to create a [[synthesizer]] composition based on Kepler's scheme for representing planetary motion with music.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rodgers |first1=John |last2=Ruff |first2=Willie |date=1979 |title=Kepler's Harmony of the World: A Realization for the Ear |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27849220 |journal=American Scientist |volume=67 |issue=3 |pages=286–292 |jstor=27849220 |bibcode=1979AmSci..67..286R |issn=0003-0996}}</ref> [[Philip Glass]] wrote an opera called ''[[Kepler (opera)|Kepler]]'' (2009) based on Kepler's life, with a libretto in German and Latin by Martina Winkel.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pasachoff |first1=Jay M. |last2=Pasachoff |first2=Naomi |date=December 2009 |title=Third physics opera for Philip Glass |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=462 |issue=7274 |pages=724 |doi=10.1038/462724a |bibcode=2009Natur.462..724P |s2cid=4391370 |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Directly named for Kepler's contribution to science are: [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion]]; [[Kepler's Supernova]] SN 1604, which he observed and described; the [[Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra]] (a set of geometrical constructions), two of which were described by him; and the [[Kepler conjecture]] on [[sphere packing]]. Places and entities [[List of things named after Johannes Kepler|named in his honor]] include multiple city streets and squares, several educational institutions, [[1134 Kepler|an asteroid]], a [[Kepler (lunar crater)|lunar crater]], and a [[Kepler (Martian crater)|Martian crater]].

The [[Kepler space telescope]] has observed 530,506 stars and detected [[List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope|2,778 confirmed planets]] ({{As of|2023|06|16|lc=y}}), many of them named after the telescope and Kepler himself.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exoplanet and Candidate Statistics |url=https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/counts_detail.html |access-date=16 June 2023 |website=exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu}}</ref><ref name="NYT-20181031">{{Cite web |author=Dennis Overbye |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/science/nasa-kepler-exoplanet.html |title=Kepler, the Little NASA Spacecraft That Could, No Longer Can |website=[[Nytimes.com]]|date=30 October 2018 |access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref>