Johannes+Kepler-+B

By: Maddie Merritt, Jason Lee, Destini Paige, Baba Ige Born: December 27, 1571 Died: November 15, 1630(Kepler died in Regensburg, after an illness) __**Kepler and Brache**__
 * Kepler is remembered for discovering the three laws of planetary motion.
 * Kepler was one of the most important astronomers in astronomy,
 * Kepler thought his cosmological theory as giving evidence for the Copernican theory.
 * Kepler was Tycho Brahe's assistant.
 * Kepler and Tycho did not believe in the same theories, Tycho believed in the Ptolemy theory and Kepler believed in the Copernicus theory.
 * Kepler made the best use of Tycho’s observations after Tycho died.

__**Childhood**__
 * Johannes Kepler was born December 27, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Wurttemberg, Holy Roman Empire.
 * His father was a mercenary soldier and him mother was the daughter of a innkeeper.
 * Kepler was the first child.
 * His father left home when Kepler was five and is thought to have died in the war in the Netherlands
 * His early school years was in a local school, then went to enrol at the University of Tubingen

__**Kepler's first Cosmological Model(1596)**__
 * Kepler thought his cosmological theory as giving evidence for the Copernican theory.
 * Kepler was a religious man; all his writings contain many references to God.
 * Kepler came up with the first correct mathematical theory of the camera obscura (kind of like a projector)and the first correct explanation of the working of the human eyes.

__**Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion**__ __**Videos**__
 * Kepler’s first law was that each planet moves in an elliptical orbit, with the sun at one focus of the ellipse.
 * Kepler’s second law was that a line from the sun to each planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time.
 * Kepler’s third law is that the periods of the planets are proportional to the 3/2 powers of the major axis lengths of their orbits.
 * Kepler’s third law is the most remarkable law he made.As an Imperial Mathematician, Kepler’s main task was to write astronomical tables, based on Tycho’s observations.

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