So today in my physics class we learned about Tycho's passion for astronomy despite being a member of Danish nobility, and how Kepler stole his data from Tycho's family after his death and used it to come up with his own theories, one of which was elliptical planetary orbits. How exactly did he pull this off? I'd imagine it would be quite hard to steal something from a noble's property. I asked my teacher, and he jokingly responded with "Ocean's 11 style" and moved on. Hoping someone here can enlighten me!
I wasn't under the impression that he stole it. Kepler worked with Brahe at Uraniborg and helped make some of the data. Brahe gave a lot of his data to Kepler while Kepler worked with him, with the idea that Kepler would use it to help test some of his theories.