Early Life
Caused Kepler's hands to be crippled and eyesight to worsen.
Smallpox
Made the theory of gravity from kepler's third law of planetary motion.
Issac Newton
How did Kepler find his first two laws?
By analyzing the astronomical observations and Tycho Brahe.
What was the university which Kepler was admitted to with a scholarship?
University of Tübingen
His occupations
He was a mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
Astronomers who influenced Kepler.
Nicolaus Copernicus, Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Ibn al-Haytham. Mostly Nicolaus and his heliocentric model.
What were his three laws?
"Planets move around the sun in an elliptical orbit, Planets farther from the Sun have longer orbital periods."
What did Kepler go to college for?
To become a theologian at his university.
What things did he see which made him interested in astronomy?
Events like the Great Comet of 1577 and a lunar eclipse
What revolution did Kepler influence?
The scientific revolution 1543-1687
How did people think of his ideas?
They thought of his discoveries as unsettling and preferred to stick with the geocentric model.
Who did he work with?
He worked with Tycho Brahe
What did he spend most of his time defending? (Fun Fact)
His mother was accused by witchcraft and he spent most of his time defending her and she got released
Which person at his school encouraged him to study and teach astronomy?
His math teacher Michael Maestlin
What other things did he do other than astronomy?
He also discovered now regular calculations of logarithms and contributed to developing calculus
What did Kepler intend to become?
A priest.
When was Kepler born?
December 27, 1571, in Germany
How did religion help kepler's understanding of astronomy?
Kepler was motivated by the religious conviction and the belief that God had created the world which contributed to some of his work and his reasoning behind his work.
What did Kepler create even though he didn't have it?
He made a telescope and it later became the foundation for other astronomical telescopes.
What courses did Kepler take?
He took Theology, Greek, Philosophy and Mathematics.