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=Johannes Kepler=  Here are a few details about my life. I was born from a family protestant Lutheran; my grandfather had been mayor of the town. Although my father Heinrich Kepler was a mercenary in the army of Duke of Württemberg and so he was most of the time away. My mother Katharina Guldenmann was an in-keeper, healer and herbalist and was accused of witchcraft. I had a sister, Margaret, who I felt close to and a brother, Christopher who was quite unkind with me. Then we move to Leonberg, where my parents woke my passion for astronomy, my mother took me when I was five to see a comet and my father took me when I was nine to see the moon eclipse. All these events changed my life.

 I contributed to the Renaissance in the following way, I was a mathematician and astronomer and I contributed with Tycho Brahe, thanks to his data of the observation of the planets and the Sun, to understand that not everything spun around the Earth. The Earth and the other planets spun around the sun, I wrote the 3 laws which define the motion of the planets around the sun and any star. I think that changed the way we see the universe in a better way. In 1627 I published the Tabulae Rudolphine which was used all around the world to calculate the position of the planets and stars. On the 17th of October 1604, I observed a supernova in our own galaxy which soon after would be called Kepler’s star, this proved that the universe was not still, but having changes like that.

I think these contributions were particularly important because my 3 laws just change the way people thought about the universe. This affected lots of people because is quite a big thing, a worldwide issue I could say, I think this had a huge impact, I think the Catholics neither the Protestant were really happy with the idea that the model of the universe was different of what was believed for at least 1600 years. I think publishing my ideas was quite a risk; I didn’t want to have a conflict with the Catholics like Galileo. I can just prove that my ideas were quite important because I know you have studied in school about the planets and their orbits and who found out the ideas of the planets motion and orbits. It was me. Also the Taboule Rudolphine was really useful, in the whole world, lots of people wanted to know where the stars and the planets were. For the people in that time my discoveries were like a new world.



The picture shown here is of the Tabulae Rudolphine which showed the position of the planets and stars.Which was use all around the world.

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