Kepler was born into the lowest social class in Germany in 1571
A sickly child, being extremely nearsighted, and having skin problems
He nearly died of Smallpox when he was just four years old
But his mother was a dealer, so she gave him some potions she sold
He was a terrible teacher, not a single student wanted to take his class
Yet he continued teaching for a whole year with no one to fail or pass
Health problems made his calculations difficult, most done while standing up
Suffering from a severe case of haemorrhoids, dangleberries and clagnuts
He had an extreme fear of taking a bath his first wife finally forced him in it
8 years into their marriage; but he thought it unpleasant, lasted but a minute
Got kicked out of Austria for failing to convert to Roman Catholicism
But a chance to get a job in Prague with the king’s mathematician
His works were added to the church’s Index of forbidden books
Till someone dared say a Pope was wrong, in 1966. That sucks
And it has been said that he was the first to write a work of science fiction
First to describe real, virtual, upright and inverted images and magnification
First to discover and describe the properties of total internal reflection
And first to explain the use of both eyes for depth perception
First to explain the principles of how a telescope works and refraction in the eye
First to investigate pinhole cameras and those first pictures that never lie
First to measure the distance to the stars using stellar parallax of incoming light
First to suggest that the Sun rotates about its axis, and to coin the term“Satellite”
First to explain that the tides are caused by the Moon and not than hand of God
First to realize that the darkness of the night sky is completely at odds…
With the idea of an infinite Universe filled with all the stars detected
First to derive the birth year of Christ, which is now universally accepted
First to derive logarithms, based on nothing but pure maths
First to explain that all bodies come together with a force proportionate to their mass
First to correctly explain the first natural laws, which are universal, verifiable, and precise
First to correctly explain planetary motion, as founder of celestial mechanics, will that suffice?