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Kepler is born in Weil der Stadt
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Kepler writes the Mysterium Cosmographicum in defense of the Coppernican system
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Kepler's interest in astronomy is sparked by the "Great Comet"
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Tycho Brahe invites Kepler to be his assistant
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Kepler takes over for Brahe as the Imperial Mathemetician of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Kepoler discovers his second law of planetary motion; The radius vector of two orbits with a shared focus describe equal areas in equal times.
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Kepler announces his first law of planetary motion; Planets move in eliipses with the Sun at one focus
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Kepler publishes the Astronomia Nova detailing his first two laws
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Kepler moves with his wife to Linz
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Catholic church deems copernican system heretical leaving Kepler no haven during the thirty years war. Not even in death
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Kepler discovers his third law of planetary motion; The squares of periodic times are equal to the average distance covered.
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Kepler publishes his Harmonicies Mundi, detail his third and final law.
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Kepler publishes his Epitome Astronomiae discussing heliocentric astronomy.
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Kepler dies while collecting money in Sagan
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NASA starts the Kepler mission, naming it after the influential astronomer
