Kepler's Life and Discoveries

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  1. 2. Michael ________ taught Kepler astronomy.
  2. 5. Shape describing Kepler's orbits
  3. 7. Kepler's law of ________ dictates that the squares of a planet's orbital period will be equal to the cubes of their semimajor axis.
  4. 8. What country was Kepler born in?
  5. 11. Kepler's original career path
  6. 12. Describes the Ptolemaic model
  7. 13. Name of the planetary tables published by Kepler in 1627.
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  1. 1. Kepler used this astronomer's observations in his formulations.
  2. 3. Kepler refused to convert to Catholicism, and was able to maintain this original faith of his.
  3. 4. Kepler built one of these in 1611
  4. 6. Kepler's mother was investigated and imprisoned for this after a neighbor claimed she poisoned her with a potion.
  5. 9. Kepler's 2nd law maintains that a line between a planet and the Sun sweeps out to cover equal amounts of these over equal spans of time.
  6. 10. Kepler used observations of this object to inform his conclusions on orbit shape