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Johannes Kepler D123 (When Kepler was born and died? (Born (December 27,…
Johannes Kepler D123
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He was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
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Best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi and Epitome of Copernician Astronomy
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Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, where he became an associate pf Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg
Later he became an assistant to the astronomer Tycho Brahe in Prague, and eventually the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolph II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II
He also taught mathematics in Linz, and was an advisor to General Wallenstein
Additionally, he did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting telescope (the Keplerian telescope), and was mentioned in the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei
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Kepler lived in an era when where was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a long 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 plant that is accessible through the natural light of reason