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=Johannes Kelper by Gracious Njomo=

My name is Johannes Kepler
Here are some details of my life: I was born in 1571 in Weil, in Swabia, a wine region in southwest Germany not far from France and I was as a premature child. To be precise, according to my own records, the pregnancy lasted 224 days, 9 hours and 53 minutes. I was the assistant to Tycho Brahe who was a great Danish astronomer, so when he died I took over the vast amount of observational data, I was also expelled from my university because my observations disagreed with the churches teaching and this was a risk of my life.

I realised that the planets have an elliptical orbit of the sun instead of a circular one.

I think these contributions were particularly important because
my discovery suggested that there were other forces in effect in our universe rather than God just making everything nice and circular, this also later inspired Ser Isaac Newton to discover the law of gravity and my discovery is still used today.

The picture on this page shows
my prove of the planets having an elliptical orbit of the sun.

By Gracious Njomo