Kepler's+Background

=Background =

Johannes Kepler was born in 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Wurttemburg, Holy Romain Empire. He was born as a first son to his father, a mercenary solider, and his mother, a daughter of an innkeeper. In 1576 him and his parents moved to Leonberg, and within a short time his father left the house for the last time. His father was believed to have died in the war in the Netherlands.

Kepler attended the University of Tubingend in 1587. He studied Latin, Hebrew, Greek, the Bible, Mathematics, and Astronomy. He was taught math and astronomy by Michael Mastlim, one of the few astronomy professors of that time who believed in Coperrnicus' idea that the Earth and other planets revolved around the sun. Almost all scholars of that era still believed that the Earth was the center of the Solar System.