Johannes Kepler was born December 27, 1571. He died November 15, 1630. Kepler was an Astronomer, Mathematician, Astrologer. Johanne did many things and one of them was discovering the three laws of planetary motion. He also, provided a new and correct way of how vision occurs or works. Kepler had planned on becoming a Theologian, but divine providence guided him to want to study the stars. Johanne lived with his mother and father, Katharina and Heinrich Kepler, until the age of five, his dad who was a mercenary soldier, left for the last time and was said to have died in the war of Netherlands. His mother was the daughter of an innkeeper. Kepler and his mother then moved to his grandfather's inn. He had a brother and a sister known as Margareta & Christopher Kepler. Johannes was the first child of them all. Johannes lived a small town Weil der Stadt, Swabia where he was born. Part of his early childhood he helped serve at his grandfather's inn. Young Kepler was liable to ill health. He had his hands crippled and a difficulty with eyesight due to smallpox. He later moved to Leonberg, in 1576. His mother would exude the love she had for the natural world by taking him out at nights and showing him the most interesting things from lunar eclipse, to comets. This led him to one day …show more content…
He was schooled in Latin the language of academics. Then attended a Protestant seminary, in Maulbronn. Since he wished to become a Protestant minister. Once finished with his elementary/middle school he then headed onto his university studies in the university of Tubingen, in 1589. He studied to become Theologian, but then The Divine Providence led him to the study of stars. Kepler took many classes including Greek, Hebrew, and philosophy, Kepler stood out the most in mathematics. He later got offered a job in a protestant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted at the age of 23, in 1594, he taught astronomy, and