On this day in 1571 – December 27th – Johannes Kepler was born near Stuttgart in what is now Germany.

Using Tycho Brahe's data, Kepler formulated his three laws which described the orbits of the planets mathematically. This only worked if the Sun - not the Earth - was at the center of the Solar System.




Mona Evans
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