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Johannes
Kepler: Dates of his life
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1533
Grynaeus' Latin edition of Euclid's Elements
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1543 Death
of Copernicus (born 1473)
Publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
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1545-1563 Council of Trent
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1546 Death of Luther (born 1483)
Birth of Tycho Brahe
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1558 Commandino's Latin edition of Conics
of Apollonius
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1560 Barocius' Latin translation of Commentary of Proclus on Euclid
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1564 Birth of Galileo Galilei
Birth of Shakespeare
Death of Michelangelo (born 1475)
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1566 Commandino's Latin edition of works of
Archimedes
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1571 December 27 Birth in Weil, Württemberg (now known as Weil der Stadt)
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1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
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1575 Seriously ill with smallpox
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1576 Rudolph II became Holy Roman Emperor (Court located in Prague)
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1577 Taken by his mother to view 'Great Comet'
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1578 Started Latin school in Leonberg
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1580 Taken by his father to see a lunar eclipse
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1582 Gregorian Calendar Reform – adopted in Italy, France, Spain,
Portugal
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1583 Gregorian Calendar adopted in German Catholic States and others
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1584 Oct. Entered junior school, Adelberg (instruction in Latin)
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1586 Nov. Entered monastic senior school, Maulbronn (instruction in
Latin)
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1587 Oct. 5 Enrolment,
University of Tübingen, Arts Faculty. Studied mathematics (including
astronomy) with Michael Mästlin (1550-1631)
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1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada
Commandino's Latin edition of the Collection
of Pappus
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1589 Sept. Entered Theological Faculty (Stift) at Tübingen; studied
under Protestant theology lecturer Matthias Hafenreffer (1561-1619)
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1591 August 11 Awarded Master's degree
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1594 March Moved to Graz, as mathematics teacher at the Protestant
seminary
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1596 Mysterium cosmographicum (Tϋbingen)
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1596 Birth of René Descartes (died 1650)
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1597 April 27 Married Barbara Müller (aged 23, twice widowed) in Graz
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1600 Feb. to April Visited Tycho Brahe in Prague
July, Observed solar eclipse in marketplace at Graz
August, Non-Catholics expelled from Graz
October, Arrived in Prague with family
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1600 William Gilbert (1544-1603) published De Magnete
Giordano Bruno burned as heretic in Rome
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1601 October 24 Death of Tycho Brahe
Later that month, Kepler appointed Imperial Mathematician
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1603 King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England
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1604 Astronomiae pars optica (Frankfurt)
October 17 Observed Supernova in
Serpentarius (Ophiuchus)
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1606 De stella nova (Prague)
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1609 Astronomia nova
(Heidelberg)
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1609 Telescopic observations by Galileo of surface of Moon, satellites
of Jupiter, phases of Venus, Milky Way
Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) made telescopic observations of Moon
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1610 Dissertatio cum nuncio
sidereo (Prague): open letter to Galileo
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1610 Galileo published discoveries in Siderius nuncius
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1611 July 3 Death of
Barbara Kepler (born c.1574)
Dioptrice (Augsburg)
De nive sexangula (Frankfurt)
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1611 Emperor Rudolph abdicated in favour of his brother Matthias
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1612 May Moved to Linz as District Mathematician
Excommunicated by Lutheran church in Linz
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1612 Death of Rudolph
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1613 Oct. 30 Married Susanna Reuttinger (aged 24) in Linz
Summoned to Regensburg to speak on calendar reform
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1614 Napier (1550-1617) published Mirifici
logarithmorum canonis descriptio
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1615 Nova Stereometria doliorum
(Linz)
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1616 Messekunst Archimedis
(Linz)
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1616 Copernicus' De revolutionibus put on Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Death of Shakespeare
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1617 Oct. to Dec. In Württemberg to defend his mother Katharina on
charge of witchcraft
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1618 Epitome astronomiae
copernicanae Lib. I, II, III (Linz)
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1618 Start of the Thirty Years’ War
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1619 Harmonices mundi libri V (Linz)
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1619 Ferdinand succeeded Matthias as Holy Roman Emperor
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1620 Epitome astronomiae
copernicanae Lib. IV (Linz)
Epitome put on Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Rome)
From Sept. until Nov. 1621 Multiple visits to Württemberg
Read Napier's book (1614) on logarithms
Read Vincenzo Galilei's book (1581) on music
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1620 Pilgrim Fathers emigrated from Plymouth, England, landed at
Plymouth, N. America
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1621 Epitome astronomiae
copernicanae Lib. V, VI, VII (Frankfurt)
Nov. Katharina Kepler released
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1622 Death of Katharina Kepler (born c.1546)
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1624 Chilias logarithmorum
(Marburg)
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1627 Tabulae Rudolphinae
(Ulm)
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1628 July Moved to Zagan, under patronage of Wallenstein
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1630 Oct. 8 Left Zagan on final journey
1630 November 15 Death in Regensburg
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1631 Nov. 7 Transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler was observed by
Gassendi (accurate within hours)
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1632 Kepler's grave in Regensburg destroyed
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1632 Sack of Regensburg
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1634 Somnium (ed. Jakob
Bartsch)
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1634 Murder of Wallenstein (born 1583)
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1636 August Second wife Susanna Kepler (born 1589) died in Regensburg
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1642 Death of Galileo Galilei
Birth of Isaac Newton
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1648 Peace of Westphalia, end of Thirty Years’ War
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