Kepler orbit led to Johannes Kepler working on his celestial mechanics. He later became known as the father of calculus. In 1601, Johannes Kepler acquired the extensive, meticulous observations of the planets made by Tycho Brahe. Kepler would spend the next five years trying to fit the observations of the planet Mars to various curves. In 1609, Kepler published the first two of his three laws of planetary motion. The first law states: More generally, the path of an object undergoing Keplerian motion may also follow a parabola or a hyperbola, which, along with ellipses, belong to a group of curves known
Capture of Portobello (1601) then returned to Plymouth in May 1601 where he distributed his prize money and in September of that year became Mayor. He would then became a founding member of the Virginia Company in 1606. Capture of Portobello (1601) The Capture of Portobello was a military event during the Anglo–Spanish War in which an English expedition under the command of William Parker assaulted and took Portobello from the Spanish, acquired some booty and then sacked the place. The war with Spain was continuing and English privateers were still roaming the Spanish American empire for prizes and attacking ports. In November 1600