Pictures and albums about Kepler published in travel

Johannes Kepler, Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627). Glorious frontispiece showing Kepler, Tycho, Copernicus, their instruments and predecessors, in a Temple of Urania.

We visited the Klementinum, the center of Jesuit activities in Prague from 1653 until the mid-18th century. The complex was continually expanded over this period and finally completed in 1726, in time for Mozart to perform in the ornate, Baroque Chapel of Mirrors, a venue which is featured in the film about the composer, Amadeus. Here in the Astronomical Tower, exhibits focus on the achievements of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler who studied the stars in the 16th and early 17th-centuries. Kepler published the three laws of planetary motion in 1619 and many of the fabulous instruments he invented and used are on display, such as this astronomical sextant. The Astronomical Tower - used as an observatory right up until the 1930s - stands at the centre of the Klementinum. Crowned by a statue of Atlas - who bears the weight of the world on his shoulders - the tower dates back to 1721 when the Jesuits, fascinated by astronomy, managed to determine the Prague meridian (from where they calculated high noon each day, also signalling Prague Castle to fire a cannon at that precise moment).