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Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler. German Astronomer. By: Braxton Salden. 1571-1630. The one who discovered that the Earth orbits the sun !!!. Johannes Kepler’s Childhood. Swabia, Germany. 3 siblings dead. Grandfathers inn. Weak and sick. Johannes Kepler.

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Johannes Kepler

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  1. Johannes Kepler German Astronomer By: Braxton Salden 1571-1630 The one who discovered that the Earth orbits the sun !!!

  2. Johannes Kepler’s Childhood Swabia, Germany 3 siblings dead Grandfathers inn Weak and sick Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler was born on December-27-1571 and in a small town called Weil der Stadt in Swabia in Southwest Germany. He also had 6 other siblings , but 3 died at an early age. When Johannes was born him and his family became very poor. In 1576 him and his family moved to Leonberg. Johannes was born prematurely and was a weak and sickly child. He also impressed travelers at his grandfathers inn with his phenomenal mathematic faculty. In 1577 he got to see the great comet! When he was 9 he observed the lunar eclipse of 1580! Unfortunately he suffered smallpox as a kid which gave him crippled hands, weak vision.

  3. Johannes as an Adult! -Johannes Kepler went to Tubingen for college! -Johannes Kepler also worked as a math teacher in Graz, Austria! -Kepler was married 2 times. -He had 5 children with his first wife Barbara Mueller , the first children died and so the last three children were 2 boys and 1 girl. -He also had 6 children with his second wife Susanna so in total Johannes Kepler had 11 kids who made it to adulthood! -Michael Maestlin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe,Ptolemy, Galileo Galilei, Pythagoras, and many other contemporaries of his timeinfluenced him!

  4. Kepler’sFirst Law! The orbit of a planet about the Sun is an ellipse with the Sun's center of mass at one focus Kepler’s Second Law! A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time. Kepler’s Third Discovery! The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their semi-major axes.

  5. References http://www.einstein-website.de/biographies/kepler_content.html http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/johannes-kepler-2776.html http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Kepler.html http://www.famousscientists.org/johannes-kepler/ http://www.johanneskepler.com/ http://www.keplersdiscovery.com/ Google.com (for pictures) http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_college_did_Johannes_Kepler_go_to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_children_did_Johannes_Kepler_have http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_Johannes_Kepler_work_at http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_influenced_Johannes_Kepler

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