Kepler and his work

Kepler’s life story, his discovery of the three Laws of Planetary Motion and work of optics. Contemporary prints illustrate his early life and education at the University of Tubingen; concepts of planetary motion held at the time, and the way Kepler’s work altered them; work in Prague leading to the Laws of Planetary Motion; study of optics, astronomical calculations and other publications; his last years, overshadowed by the Thirty Year’s War.