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'Johannes Kepler', (1933). Portrait of German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Kepler went to Prague in 1600 to assist Tycho Brahe. On Tycho's death the following year, Kepler succeeded him as court astronomer to Rudolph II. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]