Johannes Kepler was born at 1 P.M on December 27, 1571 in Weil Der Stadt, Wurttemberg, in the Holy Empire of German Nationality. He was a sickly child and his parents were poor. Kepler’s family was Lutherans and he adhered to the Augsburg confession a defining document for Lutheranism. He was the eldest child of an ill assorted union. His father Henry Kepler was a reckless soldier of fortune and his mother, Catherine Guldemann, the daughter of an innkeeper. His father worked as a mercenary and left the family when Johannes was five years old. It is believe that his father died in the eighty years war in Netherlands. His mother was an inner keeper daughter and worked as a healer and herbalist. Kepler mother was tried for witchcraft. kepler had six siblings and three of which died at an early age. Kepler suffered from an eye illness and his vision was severely defective like hypochondria.
In 1576the family moved to Léon erg where Johannes attended first the German school and then the Latin school. In 1583, he passed the exam in Stuttgart and in 1584 went to the seminar Adelberg Germany, a convent school. Two years later he was accepted at a higher seminar in Maulbronn Germany, also a convent school. Kepler made possible through a scholarshiop and he began in 1589 with his studies in theology, philosophy, mathematics and astrnomy at the University of Tuebingen Germany.
When Johannes parents returned after several years, his father, Henry set up a business as an innkeeper. His father was not interested in paying fees to send his son to school. Instead he saw him as a cheap source of labor in the inn, so Henry made his son leave school. However, business at that time later declined and Johannes kepler help was not need it. With his for...
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...ed and therefore Brahe gave Kepler the task to define the motion of the planetary motion.
Johannes worked affect us today because without his three law of motion we wouldn’t have be able to know about the universal gravitation. Also with his idea that the planets, and as well planet earth, he state that the sun was revolved around the planets and that planets were on the center. Also he published data on the position on the stars which immensely help navigators. He made various contributions to mathematics including faster methods of calculation. He also was the person the improve optics. However, his main contribution with the greatest impact was Keplers laws of planetary motion. These laws provided the groundwork for many great scientific including Sir Isaac Newton’s work on the universal gravitation. He died of fever in Regensburg, Germany on November 15, 1630.
Copernicus was born in Poland and was raised by a prosperous German family. As a result, he really enjoyed his youth, taking twelve years at four different universities. In 1503, he finall...
Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in Thorn, Poland. He was the youngest son of four children and the son of a prosperous merchant. Following his father's death, his Uncle Lukas Watzelrode, bishop of Ermland, adopted him. Copernicus began his studies in Thorn and then at the University of Cracow where he studied mathematics and became very interested in humanistic studies.1 Copernicus left Cracow for Italy where he went to the Universities of Bologna and later Padua. He studied many different subjects including mathematics, canon law, and astronomy. Copernicus received a degree in medicine at the University of Padua, and went on to receive his doctorate from the University of Ferrara in canon law.
In the year of 1473, on the 19th of February, a soon-to-be, well remembered, mathematician/astronomer was born in the city of Torun, Poland. Born with the name of Nicolaus Copernicus, he was the fourth and youngest child of Nicolaus Copernicus Sr., and Barbara Watzenrode. Copernicus was, technically, born into German heritage. That being said, his primary language was german, bt many scholars believe he spoke fluently in Polish also. At ten years of age, the unfortunate happened to Nicolaus; His father passed away. After the passing of Nicolaus Sr., a maternal uncle stepped in and took over the parenting role. Nicolaus’ uncle took matters into his own hands to make sure Copernicus acquired the most outstanding education possible. Copernicus enrolled in the University of Cracow in the year of 1491. While at the university, he studied painting and mathematics. At that time, Copernicus took no classes over astronomy. Nicolaus developed a growing interest in cosmos and books. He then started a collection of books on astronomy. Following Nicolaus’s graduation from Cracow in 1494, he returned back to the city Torun. Copernicus's uncle had already had a job as a cannon arranged for him prior to his arrival. This job at Frombork Cathedral, was usually only given to priests. Such a fortunate and unusual opportunity, Copernicus took the job. He then held that job for the rest of his life. The position of a cannon allowed him to fund money to continue his studies for as long as he desired. There was really only one major downfall of the job. It took up a lot of his time, leaving him very little free time. It came to the point where academics had to come second. In the year of 1496, Nicolaus took a leave from his job. Not a two-week leave,...
Galileo was born in February of 1564 to a poor family that resided in Pisa, Italy. Galileo’s father was a composer and musical therapist, but he also supported his family through working in the wool trade. Galileo and his family moved to Florence, Italy in the 1570s, and here Galileo began to attend
Isaac Newton had a tragic and unfortunate life ever since he was born. Three months prior to Newton’s birth, his father died. Then, when Newton was three years old, his mother left him with her parents in order to remarry to a wealthy rector, named Barnabas Smith. A few years later, his mother returned with three more children, and brought Newton back home to live with her and their new family. Newton went to school for next next couple years, until age fourteen, when he was told to drop out of school to assist his mother around the house and on the farm. It turned out Newton was not of any help around the house nor farm, because he was constantly busy reading. His mother then advised him to return to school (“Isaac Newton;” Gleick). After said events, his mother's second husband, Barnabas Smith dies as well. His mother then fled again, completely neglecting Newton's parental needs. Combination of all these events caused Newton to be on a constant emotional and physical edge, often crying and engaging in disputes and fights in school (“Sir Isaac Newton;” Hatch).
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This paper is an overview of the Kepler spacecraft and its mission in space. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA), Kepler, named after Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, “is a space observatory launched…to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.” Kepler does this by searching for planets within our galaxy that have a similar size to Earth within a habitable zone. A habitable zone is a distance between the planet and its star where water can exist on the planet’s surface. Additionally, Kepler is aimed at searching for planets with similar one-year orbits like that of Earth. As technology advances on Earth, increased standards of living and life expectancies have taken a toll on Earth’s fleeting, finite resources. Kepler potentially provides scientists with information regarding planets that can serve as a future home when resources have diminished and information that can foreshadow inevitabilities about Earth through older, Earth-like planets.
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He was taught under Brache in Prague. Kepler was a mathematician and calendar maker. Bache taught him because of how impressive his mathematical skills were. He was able to calculate the positions of the planets. In 1604, he discovered a new star, which was actually the Milky Way’s last supernova. In 1609 he published Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) which launched his heliocentric view of the universe and the first two laws of planetary motion. The first being that planets move in an elliptical, not spherical, orbit with the Sun being one of the foci, or center point. The second law stated that the planets will rotate and why doing so cover equal area in equal time no matter where in the orbital it
Johannes Kepler was born on December 27th in the year of 1571. He was born in the town of Weil Der Stadt in Germany. He was the oldest child of the three siblings in his family. His father was Heinrich Kepler and his was mother Katharina Guldenmann. He was born into a very wealthy and powerful family, but the wealth dwindled quickly. The loss of wealth caused his father to enlist into the Mercenary Business and was sent away on missions and was away from home a lot. His father passed away on the battlefield when Johannes was five years
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