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Johannes KEPLER Astronomical Work

Johannes Kepler was born in 1571 in Germany. He showed an early interest in astronomy after witnessing a lunar eclipse with his mother at age 9. As an adult, Kepler served as a mathematics and astronomy teacher and made several important discoveries about optics and the motion of planets. He discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus, that the time to traverse an orbital arc is proportional to the sector area, and that there is a relationship between periodic times and orbital radii. Kepler died in 1630 after making significant contributions to our understanding of the solar system and optics.

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Johannes KEPLER Astronomical Work

Johannes Kepler was born in 1571 in Germany. He showed an early interest in astronomy after witnessing a lunar eclipse with his mother at age 9. As an adult, Kepler served as a mathematics and astronomy teacher and made several important discoveries about optics and the motion of planets. He discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus, that the time to traverse an orbital arc is proportional to the sector area, and that there is a relationship between periodic times and orbital radii. Kepler died in 1630 after making significant contributions to our understanding of the solar system and optics.

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Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571,

in Weil der Stadt , a small town in the Holy Empire ,


now is Germany. Kepler was only 5 years old when
his father, Heinrich Kepler , earned precarious
living as a mercenary soldier , and it is believed that
his father died in war. Kepler went to a local school
for his early education and for his University of
Tubingen , then (as now) a baston of Lutheran
Orthodoxy , there he studied philosophy. At the age
of 23, Kepler served as the teacher of mathematics
and astronomy at the Protestants school in Graz,
Austria in 1594.

Johannes KEPLER
ASTRONOMICAL WORK

Kepler’s mother used to show him heavenly things


including lunar eclipse to create interest for nature.
Kepler never forgot the view of the lunar eclipse , he
witnessed with his mother at the age of 9, for his the
rest of his life. This is also brought up the interest
for Kepler which later transformed as greatest
insight and grasp for the solar system and for lunar
eclipse and also Kepler discovered Three Main Laws
of Planetary Motion commonly defined as follows :
(1)the planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun
at one focus .( LAW OF ELLIPSES) ; (2) he time
necessary to traverse any arc of a planetary orbit is
proportional to the area of the sector between the
central body and that arc(THE AREA LAW) ; and (3)
there is an exact relationship between the squares
of the planets ‘ periodic times and the cubes of the
radii of their orbits (HARMONIC LAW).

KEPLER OPTICS
WORK
Kepler discovered the inverse square law of light
intensity in 1604. Kepler provided the first correct
mathematical theory of the camera obscura and the
explanation of the human eye. Kepler wrote a study
of the properties of lenses and developed an
innovative explanation for the behaviour of light in
the newly invented telescope now usually known as
a KEPLERIAN TELESCOPE.

MARRIED LIFE OF
JOHANNES KEPLER

Kepler first marriage was with Barbara Muller,


arranged through a broken. Barbara died at young
age . Then he married Susanna Reuttingger in 1613,
but the second marriage was a matter of practical
necessity. Kepler need someone to take care of
children.
DEATH OF
JOHANNES KEPLER

Kepler died after failing ill at the age of 58, on


November 15, 1630 in the German city of
Regensburg.

“THE WAYS BY WHICH MEN ARRIVE AT


KNOWLEDGE OF CELESTIAL THINGS ARE
HARDLY LESS WONDERFUL THAN THE NATURE
OF THESE THINGS THEMSELVES’’

-JOHANNES KEPLER

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