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1571 – 1630Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)Died 15 November 1630, aged 58The German astronomer and mathematician formulated the three laws of planetary motion that described the elliptical orbits of planets around the Sun. His work provided the empirical foundation later unified by Newton's law of universal gravitation.