Johannes Kepler

A large quantity of Kepler's correspondence survives.In consequence, we know rather a lot about Kepler's life, and indeed about his character.Johannes was their first child.As a child, Kepler lived with his mother in his grandfather's inn.Throughout his life, Kepler was a profoundly religious man.Kepler did not take this attitude.At the end of his first year Kepler got 'A's for everything except mathematics.Kepler was excommunicated in 1612.Kepler saw his cosmological theory as providing evidence for the Copernican theory.Kepler asserts that its advantages over the geocentric theory are in its greater explanatory power.