How are kepler and galileo alike????

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How are kepler and galileo alike????

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Both Kepler & Galileo were brilliant professors of mathematics.  In 1601, Kepler was appointed as Imperial Mathematician, the most prestigious appointment in mathematics in Europe.  Galileo obtained a lectureship of mathematics at the university of Pisa (1589-92).

In 1610 Kepler heard and read about Galileo's discoveries with the spyglass. He quickly composed a long letter of support which he published as Dissertatio *** Nuncio Sidereo ("Conversation with the Sidereal Messenger"), and when, later that year, he obtained the use of a suitable telescope, he published his observations of Jupiter's satellites under the title Narratio de Observatis Quatuor Jovis Satellitibus ("Narration about Four Satellites of Jupiter observed"). These tracts were an enormous support to Galileo, whose discoveries were doubted or denied by many. Both of Kepler's tracts were quickly reprinted in Florence. Kepler went on to provide the beginning of a theory of the telescope in his Dioptrice, published in 1611.