Following Brahe's untimely death the following year, Kepler succeeded him as Court Mathematician to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, King of Bohemia and Hungary. After publishing Brahe's calculations on the orbit of Mars in 1609, he became Mathematician to the States of Upper Austria and moved to...
This is one reason why the now-obscure Polish scholar, Laurence Suslyga, argued in his 1605 thesis on the birth and death of Christ that Jesus was actually born in 5 BC. Suslyga's tract unexpectedly gained a significance beyond the specialist realm of biblical chronology. The circumstances ...