Johannes Kepler essay By William Veldhoen Johannes Kepler was a famous astronomer and mathematician during the late 16th early 17th Century. He was also a famous astrologer and Natural Philosopher. He was born on the 27th of December, 1571 in Weil der Stadt in the Holy Roman Empire. His father, Heinrich Kepler was a mercenary who was believed to have died in the Eighty Year’s War. He had abandoned the Kepler’s family when Kepler was five. Due to the fact that Johannes Kepler was born prematurely he claimed to have been weak and often sick as a child. However he often impressed the visitors in his grandfather’s inn with his extraordinary mathematical talent from a very young age. He was also very interested in astronomy. When he was six he observed the Great Comet of 1577 with his mother. As he got …show more content…
It was in Linz that he completed his laws of Planetary Motion and the Rudolphine Tables. In 1613, Kepler married the 24 year old Susanna Reuttinger and together had three children, Cordula, Fridmar and Hildebert. In 1617, Kepler’s mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft and in 1620 she was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. The reason for her accusation was mainly due to a dispute between Kepler’s brother and a woman named Ursula Reingold. Kepler’s mother was released from prison in late 1621 due to a strong defense statement made by Kepler. In order to help defend his mother had to cancel the work he was studying. He started working on a new work titled Harmonices Mundi which was an attempt to explain the proportions of the universe from an astronomical aspect in terms of music. It was published in 1619. In 1623, Kepler completed the Rudolphine Tables which were at the time a highly advanced Star Chart. He had started working on the Rudolphine Tables in 1600 with Tycho Brahe. Even though it was completed in 1623 it wasn’t published until 1627 due to negotiations with Tycho Brahe’s