Keplerdenkmal
Keplerdenkmal in Linz honours Johannes Kepler, a mathematician and astronomer who lived and worked here in the early seventeenth century. The monument links this Austrian city with a decisive chapter in astronomy. Kepler used Tycho Brahe’s catalogue of 777 stars to show that planets travel in elliptical orbits, rather than perfect circles. His work changed the picture of the solar system.
After settling in Linz, he worked as a surveyor for Upper Austria and published Harmonice Mundi Libri V. That book contained his third law of planetary motion. His Astronomia Nova, published in 1609, had already presented the first two laws. Religious conflict shaped his life, sending him between Graz, Prague, Linz, Sagan, and other cities. Linz therefore recalls both scientific achievement and a difficult, mobile career. The Johannes Kepler University Linz has carried his name since 1975.
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Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Linz. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
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myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.