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August 7: Johannes Kepler’s Mother Arrested

On 7 August 1620, Catherine Guldenmann Kepler was arrested for witchcraft. Mrs. Kepler was the mother of astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler. Kepler was not well liked in her small town of Leonburg, Germany. Johannes described his mother as “small, thin, swarthy, gossiping and quarrelsome, of a bad disposition.” The fact that she is made […]