4th+Period+-+Johann+Keplar

=4th Period - Johann Keplar=

**By**:Nathan W. **Date of birth**: December 27, 1571 **Location of birth:** Weil der Stadt **Parents’ names:**Kathirine (father's name not found)

**Family background:** //His dad is a mercenary. (A soldier serving only for money) His mom was a bad tempered protestant. She was tried as a witch. It took 3 years for Johannes to get her off charges of being a witch. She had 6 other children, three of them regrettably died. Johannes’s mother died of Hungarian spotted typhus a disease that was rife in that time.//

**Date of death:** December 15, 1630 **Location of death/grave:** Regensburg,Germany


 * Education: ** //Johannes keplar was taught at many places, such as the university of turbingen, a protestant intuition. When he was there he decided to become a canon or priest. When he was there he also studied theogy and philology. Later on he became a teacher for a school in Prague. He also worked in a church from 1589 to 1594.//

**Additional/Interesting information:** //Some interesting facts about Johannes keplar are that his house is in Mexico despite that he is Italian. He also got married twice; his second wife’s name was Susana Reutinger. They got married October 1613. He died when he was 59. His grave is unmarked to this day. There is also a space telescope dedicated to looking for exo planets named after him.// Sources Cited (Johann Keplar – 4th Period)
 * Career: **// At a school in Graz Kepler teaches mathematics. He works as an assistant to Tycho Brane. He writes 14 different books in a few years. In 1609 Kepler published the first two laws of planetary motion. In his earlier years he briefly works as a dish washer at an inn his grandfather owned. //
 * Legacy: **// Kepler’s legacy is many different things. First there are the tree laws of planetary motion, several books on astronomy and the harmony of planets (he believed that each planet has a different sound.) The three laws of planetary motion are one the focal points of planets orbit is the sun and other planets. The second law is that at some points of the planets orbit go faster than other parts of the orbit. And the final law is that the orbital period is the sun cubed. //

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