Johannes Kepler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1571
Place of Birth: Weil der Stadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date of Death: 15-Nov-1630
Profession: astronomer, naturalist, astrologer, physicist, mathematician, theologian, cosmologist, philosopher, musicologist, music theorist
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Johannes Kepler
- Johannes Kepler (; German: [jo'han?s 'k?pl?, -n?s -]; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer.
- He is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
- These works also provided one of the foundations for Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg.
- Later he became an assistant to the astronomer Tycho Brahe in Prague, and eventually the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II.
- He also taught mathematics in Linz, and was an adviser to General Wallenstein. Additionally, he did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting (or Keplerian) telescope, and was mentioned in the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei.
- He was a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a strong division between astronomy (a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of natural philosophy).
- Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his work, motivated by the religious conviction and belief that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan that is accessible through the natural light of reason. Kepler described his new astronomy as "celestial physics", as "an excursion into Aristotle's Metaphysics", and as "a supplement to Aristotle's On the Heavens", transforming the ancient tradition of physical cosmology by treating astronomy as part of a universal mathematical physics.
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