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== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
Kepler was born in Weil, Württemburg, in what was then known as the Holy Roman Empire, and more particularly in that part of it now known as [[Germany]].<ref name=dao/><ref name=rice>Van Helden, Al. "[http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/kepler.html Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)]." ''The Galileo Project'', Rice University, 1995. Accessed March 2, 2008.</ref><ref name=nasa>"[http://kepler.nasa.gov/johannes/ Johannes Kepler: His Life, His Laws, and Times]." [[NASA]]. Accessed March 2, 2008.</ref> He observed his first [[comet]] at the age of six and his first [[eclipse]] of the [[Moon]] at the age of eight or nine.<ref name=dao/> Kepler overcame an enormous obstacle to become a great scientist, as he suffered from an attack of [[smallpox]] when he was only four years old. The disease left him with poor eyesight and crippled hands for the rest of his life.
Kepler was born in Weil, Württemburg, in what was then known as the [[Holy Roman Empire]], and more particularly in that part of it now known as [[Germany]].<ref name=dao/><ref name=rice>Van Helden, Al. "[http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/kepler.html Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)]." ''The Galileo Project'', Rice University, 1995. Accessed March 2, 2008.</ref><ref name=nasa>"[http://kepler.nasa.gov/johannes/ Johannes Kepler: His Life, His Laws, and Times]." [[NASA]]. Accessed March 2, 2008.</ref> He observed his first [[comet]] at the age of six and his first [[eclipse]] of the [[Moon]] at the age of eight or nine.<ref name=dao/> Kepler overcame an enormous obstacle to become a great scientist, as he suffered from an attack of [[smallpox]] when he was only four years old. The disease left him with poor eyesight and crippled hands for the rest of his life.
Kepler entered the Lutheran seminary at Adelberg in 1584,<ref name=rice/> and in 1589 he won a scholarship to study theology at the University of Tübingen.<ref name=nasa/>
Kepler entered the Lutheran seminary at Adelberg in 1584,<ref name=rice/> and in 1589 he won a scholarship to study theology at the University of Tübingen.<ref name=nasa/>