Early Life & Education
Kepler's date of birth
What is December 27, 1571?
This caused him to be exiled from Graz by Franz Ferdinand and lose Imperial mathematician status in Prague.
What is his Lutheran Faith?
Planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun as the focus
What is the 1st Law of Planetary Motion?
He wrote this many books about his discoveries
What is 18?
Kepler’s work directly laid the foundation for this English scientist to discover the universal law of gravity decades later.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Kepler's birthplace
Where is Weil der Stadt, Wurttemberg Germany?
Inspired by this Italian scientist who studied Jupiters moons to build his own telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The squares of the times to complete one orbit are proportional to the cubes of the average distances from the sun
What is the third law of planetary motion?
Kepler wrote Somnium ("The Dream"), a book considered to be the world's first story in this modern fiction genre.
What is science fiction?
Kepler spent many years defending his mother, Katharina, from this accusation
What is Witchcraft?
Kepler suffered from this viral disease as a child, which left him with crippled hands and permanently impaired vision
What is smallpox?
In 1604, Kepler observed and documented a bright star in the sky—an event we now know by this explosive term.
What is a supernova?
The 2nd Law of Planetary Motion
What is, in their orbits around the sun, the planets sweep out equal areas in equal times?
First to prove that the ocean's tides are due to this thing's gravity
What is the moon?
After his death in Germany on November 15, 1630, his grave was destroyed in 1632 during this war.
What is the 30 Years War?
Kepler originally went to the University of Tübingen to study this profession before his math skills changed his path.
What is Lutheran minister/Theologian?
As a devout Lutheran he derived the birth year of this important person that is now universally accepted.
Who is Jesus?
In 1600 he moved to Prague to work with this astronomer. He eventually took over his title of Imperial Mathematician.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
Published in 1627, this set of star catalogs and planetary tables allowed scientists to calculate planet positions.
What are the Rudolphine Tables?
Craters on these two places are named after Kepler
Where is the moon and mars?
Fascinated by and eventually defended this Danish astronomer who stated that sun was at center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
NASA's first planetary detection mission was named this
What is Kepler Space Observatory?
In 1609 he published his first two laws in this book which translates to be "New Astronomy".
What is Astronomia Nova?
He was the first to suggest that the sun rotates about its axis and coined this word.
What is satellite?
His explanation of planetary motioned earned him this title.
What is "founder of celestial mechanics"?