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Johannes Kepler was one of the great astronomers of the 17th century. Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt in southern Germany on 27 December 1571. His father Heinrich was a mercenary soldier.

Johannes’s family was poor but in 1588 he won a scholarship to study theology at the University of Tubingen. (Kepler was a Lutheran). At first, Johannes planned to become a theologian but while at university he became interested in astronomy.

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(However, Kepler remained a devout Christian for the rest of his life).

While he was at university Kepler met a man named Michael Maestlin, who believed in the Copernican theory of the universe. (In the early 16th century people believed the Sun, Moon and the other planets orbited the Sun.

Copernicus challenged this theory in a book published in 1543. He claimed that the Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun. Kepler became convinced the Copernican theory was correct and he set out to prove it.

In 1594 Kepler became a teacher of mathematics at Graz in