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Johannes Kepler

was born 453 years ago

27 December 1571

Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician and astronomer who discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits. He gave three fundamental laws of planetary motion. He also did important work in optics and geometry.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kepler/