Jaime Roberto Guerrero
5/14/16
Astronomy 4, 11 AM
The Life of Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt, a small town in Württemberg which was formerly part of the old Duchy of Swabia. Born prematurely on December 27th, 1571; Johannes lived his childhood very sick and weak. It has been said that Johannes’ father Heinrich Kepler left the family when Johannes was just 5 years old, and eventually died during the eighty years war in the Netherlands. Johannes grew up in his great grandfather's inn with his mother and 3 siblings. It was at the family inn were Johannes would impress the local folk with his understanding of articulate math problem solving. Johannes attended a local school at a young age and then went on to join a local seminary with the intentions of being ordained. Johannes eventually attended University of Tübingen in Germany.
In December of 1595; Johannes Kepler met his first wife Barbara Müller, 2 years later in 1597; Johannes and Barbara get married and very soon after have two children. The first two children die in infancy but Johannes and Barbara go on to eventually having 3 more children. In 1611,
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The three laws of planetary motion were named after Johannes Kepler and led to Isaac Newton's theory of Universal gravitation. Kepler's conjecture is a mathematical conjecture involving the packing of spherical shaped objects in three dimensional Euclidean space. The theory started with his paper using his famous “six-cornered snowflake”, and eventually during the 19th, 20th, and even in 2015 collaborators published the last and final proof of the Kepler's Conjecture. It seems hundreds of thousands of people have used what Johannes Kepler has left behind for us and done something amazing with it. Johannes has clearly paved the way for the way we look at stars and moons, with his discoveries of science and