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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.
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.
Georg Kepler’s father was Johann (Hans) Kepler (1544 - 1593), from Weil der Stadt, who was the progenitor of the Kepler family of Besigheim. Johann (Hans) Kepler was the older brother of Heinrich Kepler (1547 – c.1590), who was the father of the famous German astrologer, astronomer, mathematician and natural philosopher, Johannes Kepler ...
The first is a woodcut portrait created specifically for him. The second is part of a monument dedicated to Johannes Kepler in Weil der Stadt, Kepler's hometown. Kepler's monument features four statues of individuals who profoundly influenced his work in astronomy, and one of them is of Michael Maestlin.
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 ...
Kepler's De raris mirisque Anni 1631 Phaenomenis notice to astronomers of the impending transits of Mercury and Venus, 1631. By the 17th century, two developments allowed for the transits of planets across the face of the Sun to be predicted and observed: the telescope and the new astronomy of Johannes Kepler, which assumed elliptical, rather than circular, planetary orbits.
Inspired by German astronomer and mathematician, Johannes Kepler, this Montblanc pen is encrusted with 5,294 sapphires and 570 diamonds to evoke the mystery and beauty of the cosmos. Its design ...
Instead, Galchen dramatizes the real witchcraft trial of Katharina Kepler, the mother of scientist Johannes Kepler. Shop Now Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch