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[[Image:Gfdse5y465.jpg|right|thumb|Johannes Kepler]]
 
[[Image:Gfdse5y465.jpg|right|thumb|Johannes Kepler]]
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'''Johannes Kepler''' (December 27, 1571-November 15, 1630)<ref name=dao>Dao, Christine. "[http://www.icr.org/article/3751/ Man of Science, Man of God: Johann Kepler]." Institute for Creation Research. Accessed March 2, 2008.</ref>, a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] in [[Germany]], was a brilliant mathematician, astronomer and devout [[Christian]] who cited God many times in all of his writings.  He felt it was his Christian duty to understand the creation of [[God]] and the universe, and that God had used a mathematical plan for the universe' design.<ref name=dao/> He also felt that man, being in the image of God, was fully capable of understanding the universe.  Like [[Plato]] and [[Pythagoras]], Kepler felt that God must have created the universe according to a mathematical plan.
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'''Johannes Kepler''' (December 27, 1571-November 15, 1630)<ref name=dao>Dao, Christine. "[http://www.icr.org/article/3751/ Man of Science, Man of God: Johann Kepler]." Institute for Creation Research. Accessed March 2, 2008.</ref>, a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] in [[Germany]], was a brilliant mathematician, astronomer, astrologer,<ref>http://www.skyscript.co.uk/kepler.html</ref> and devout [[Christian]] who cited God many times in all of his writings.  He felt it was his Christian duty to understand the creation of [[God]] and the universe, and that God had used a mathematical plan for the universe' design.<ref name=dao/> He also felt that man, being in the image of God, was fully capable of understanding the universe.  Like [[Plato]] and [[Pythagoras]], Kepler felt that God must have created the universe according to a mathematical plan.
    
== Life and career ==
 
== Life and career ==
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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*[http://www.relativitycalculator.com/Kepler_1st_Law.shtml &nbsp; Johannes Kepler empiricism and mathematics provided the basis for Newton's laws of motion and gravity]  
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*[http://www.relativitycalculator.com/Kepler_1st_Law.shtml &nbsp; Johannes Kepler empiricism and mathematics provided the basis for Newton's laws of motion and gravity]
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*[http://www.skyscript.co.uk/kepler.html Johannes Kepler and the Music of the Spheres]
     
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