Questions about Kepler's life and work

1. State Kepler's three laws of planetary motion.
2. Describe five (at least) other contributions to mathematics and/or physics made by Kepler in his lifetime.
3. When and where was Kepler born? What university did he attend, and roughly when did he attend it?
4. Part of Kepler's early work was in support of Copernicus' ideas - what was significant about those ideas, and how did they differ from the previous view of the cosmos?
5. In his early description of his cosmology, Kepler used several geometric solids (3D shapes) in a manner that seems very odd to modern readers; what were these solids, and what role did they play in his theory?
6. In arriving at his three laws, Kepler used a large body of astronomical data: who collected that data?
7. Name the books Kepler wrote (English titles will suffice) in which his three laws first appeared (indicate which laws appeared in which books, and give publication dates).
8. When and where did Kepler die?

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