After publishing Brahe's calculations on the orbit of Mars in 1609, he became Mathematician to the States of Upper Austria and moved to Linz in 1612, where he wrote "De Cometis and Harmonic Mundi."
It was there Kepler discovered his laws of planetary motion governing elliptical orbits, which were motivated by his desire to prove the Pythagorean Music of the Spheres.įollowing Brahe's untimely death the following year, Kepler succeeded him as Court Mathematician to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Hungary. Following graduation, he was professor of mathematics at the University at Graz where he wrote "Mysterium Cosmographicum" in 1596, a treatise which initiated a correspondence with Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe, who subsequently employed Kepler as his assistant at his observatory near Prague, 1600. The son of peasants, Keplers' prodigious ability placed him as a student in the University of Tubingen, where he was strongly influenced by Copernican teachings. The leading astronomical theorist for over 400 years, he was regarded as having "one foot in medieval mysticism and one foot in the scientific method." Known as "the father of modern astronomy," he discovered the three laws of planetary motion which paved the way a half century later for Newton's laws of universal gravitation.
German author, mathematician, scientist, astronomer, court astrologer and teacher.
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