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Kepler was born on 27 December 1571, in the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt (now part of the Stuttgart Region in the German state of Baden-Württemberg). His grandfather, Sebald Kepler, had been Lord Mayor of the city. By the time Johannes was born, the Kepler family fortune was in decline.
The astronomical tables that Ussher probably used were Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae (Rudolphine Tables, 1627). Using them, he would have concluded that the equinox occurred on Tuesday, October 25, only one day earlier than the traditional day of its creation, on the fourth day of Creation week, Wednesday, along with the Sun, Moon, and stars ...
Kepler is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Angela Kepler (born 1943), New Zealand–born American writer; Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer; Katharina Kepler (1546–1622), German witchcraft accusation victim and mother of Johannes Kepler
Katharina Kepler (née: Guldenmann; 8 November 1547 – 13 April 1622) was a woman from Leonberg, Württemberg, who was the mother of the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. She was accused of witchcraft in 1615, but was defended by her son and released.
Separately, centuries after German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface, the pioneering drawings helped scientists piece ...
Philip Glass, American composer, Kepler opera (2009), homage to Johannes Kepler, commissioned by the city of Linz, where the astronomer lived. Tim Watts, (English composer, born 1979), Kepler's Trial (2016–2017), premiered at St John's College, Cambridge (2016); revised version performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 9 November 2017 [17]
Scientists analyzed famed astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 1607 sketches of sunspots to solve a mystery about the sun’s solar cycle that has persisted for centuries.
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