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Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Kepler's Life
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Kepler and Galileo
Kepler worked along with Galileo and after he got a telescope eventually Improving Galileo's design. -
Kepler's first two laws were published.
Kepler published his first two of three laws of planetary motion. This said planets moved around the sun in an ellipses and that the planets speed increases when they move closer to the sun but they decrease when they move away. -
Defends his mother against witchcraft
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Third Law
Kepler published his third and final law in planetary motion. This used mathematics to find the distance of planets from the sun. -
Kepler's other work
Through Kepler's life he did work on optics. How the eye worked and he eventually published a book on it. -
Kepler's Rudolphine table
Kepler worked and made improvement on Tycho's Rudolphne Table that Tycho invented before.