Johannes+Kepler+P2



=__Johannes Kepler__= __EARLY LIFE__ Hello my name is Johannes Kepler I was born in a town named Weil Der Stadt, Germany on December 27, 1571. When I was three I caught smallpox and lingered and almost died for several months my childhood wasn’t the best one ever I was usually unhappy and unsettled.

My father was a mercenary soldier who was barely never home some times months or even years.Then my mother decided to leave with my father and I had to stay with my grandfather.

After a couple months or so my grandfather sent me to school. As I was in school teacher found my academic skills were very well.

__RETURNING SCHOOL__ My father was not interested in paying fees for me to atttend school but instead he saw me as a cheap source of labour in the inn, so my father made me leave school. With my former teachers’ encouragement, me successfully obtained a scholarship from the Duke of Württemberg to enable me to continue my education. My father allowed me to return to school.

I was able to begin attending the University of Tübingen in 1587.My studies included Latin, Hebrew, Greek, the Bible, mathematics, and astronomy.I studied other subjects, like mathematics, besides religion at school, and I became interested by the order of math. By the end of my stay at the University I decided to change my life's work from clergyman to astronomer. I felt that there were other ways I could serve God. I believed that being an astronomer and using math to study the motions of the planets was one way. So I became a math teacher and did astronomy research in my spare time.

__MY DISCOVERIES__ By this time I accepted the Copernican theory; that the earth is one of a group of planets that revolve around the sun.

I was a German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion:

My first law is planets move around the Sun in ellipses, with the Sun at one focus.It helps us discover if other stars have planets.

The second law is the line connecting the Sun to a planet sweeps equal areas in equal times. It states that the areas swept out by a planet during equal time must be identical.

Also the third law is the square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the mean distance from the Sun. This law is used to describe the motions of bodies other than the planets to the Sun.

__Some of my quotes are__: "By the study of the orbit of Mars, we must either arrive at the secrets of astronomy or forever remain in ignorance of them." "The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.""I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of the Earth. Although my soul was from heaven, the shadow of my body lies here." - Kepler's epitaph.

http://www.johanneskepler.com/johannes_kepler_quotes.htm http://kepler.nasa.gov/johannes/