Who was Johannes Kepler?
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Johannes Kepler: His Life, His Laws and Times
A Short Biography
Johannes Kepler was born about 1 PM on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt,
Württemberg, in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality.
He was a sickly child and
his parents were poor.
But his evident intelligence earned him a scholarship to the
University of Tübingen to study for the Lutheran ministry.
There he was introduced to the
ideas of Copernicus and delighted in them.
In 1596, while a mathematics teacher in Graz,
he wrote the first outspoken defense of the Copernican system, the Mysterium
Cosmographicum.
Kepler's family was Lutheran and he adhered to the Augsburg Confession a defining
document for Lutheranism.
However, he did not adhere to the Lutheran position on the
real presence and refused to sign the Formula of Concord.
Because of his refusal he was
excluded from the sacrament in the Lutheran church.
This and his refusal to convert to
Catholicism left him alienated by both the Lutherans and the Catholics.
Thus he had no
refuge during the Thirty-Years War.
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