(27. 12. 1571 Weil der Stadt, DE – 15. 121. 1630 Regensburg, DE)
Assistant to Tycho Brahe, court astronomer to Holy Roman Emperors
Rudolf II, Mathias, and Ferdinand II
Formulated his eponymous laws of planetary motion
Collaborator of Bacháček, correspondent of Galileo
Credit, Wikipedia. Available online http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
The Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Available online http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=127098
The MacTutor History of Mathematics.
Available online http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kepler.html
Smolík, J. Mathematikové v Čechách od založení university Pražské do počátku tohoto století. Praha, 1864, pp. 108-112. Available online http://kramerius.mlp.cz/kramerius/MShowMonograph.do?id=1197&author=Smolík_Josef