He was also a mathematics teacher in Linz, Austria, and an adviser to General Wallenstein. Later he became an assistant to astronomer Tycho Brahe, the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II.
These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.ĭuring his career, Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg.
He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. Johannes Kepler (German pronunciation: ) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution.
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