Kepler's+Influences

= ﻿Influences =

Johannes Kepler's accomplishments would not have been possible without the help of other diligent scientists. When Kepler became the imperial mathematician for Emperor Rudolph II of the Holy Roman Empire he replaced his mentor Tycho Brahe. It was Brahe's data and discoveries that Kepler used to develop his laws of planetary motion. Kepler relied heavily on Brahe's data to formulate his three distinct orbital theories. Although Kepler's translation of Brahe's data was quite compelling on paper, it still needed further varification other than mathmatics. Kepler used a telescope that he recieved from Galileo Galilei, whom he never met in person, to survey the night sky and collect additional data confirming his beliefs.