Article: Kepler, Johannes (15711630)

KEPLER, JOHANNES (1571 1630)

KEPLER, JOHANNES (1571 1630), German astronomer and mathematician; discoverer of the laws of planetary motion. Born into the Protestant minority in the free city of Weil der Stadt, within the Lutheran duchy of W ü rttemberg, Kepler's family was poised at the boundary between the aristocracy and the artisan class. His father and brother Heinrich both served as soldiers; his youngest brother worked as a tinsmith. Kepler was educated at religious schools supported by the duke of W ü rttemberg, and at the University of T ü bingen. Here he studied with theologians trained by Philipp Melanchthon (1497 1560), the great German ...

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