Movement. Johann Kepler

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The Contemporary and the friend Galilee Johann Kepler (1571-1630) investigated and has opened laws of movement of planets.%

The First. The orbit of each planet is an ellipse, in one of which focuses there is a Sun.

The Second. Each planet moves in a plane passing through the centre of the Sun, and the straight line connecting a planet with the Sun, in equal time intervals describes the equal areas.

The Third. Squares of time of the reference of planets round the Sun concern, as cubes of their average distances from the Sun.

Great opening have not brought to Kepler riches, and on a life he had to earn drawing up of horoscopes. He spoke: ' After all an astrology - all only a silly daughter of astronomy, also that terrible if the daughter fed mother who differently would die with hunger '. For seditious thoughts the scientist has been separated from church.

Kepler in poverty and obscurity Has died.

Scientists of the subsequent generations named it ' the legislator of the sky '.

The treatise ' New astronomy ' was its Most known work.