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... Kepler , who stayed with him for several months in order that he might carry out some astro- nomical observations . In the following year Kepler returned , and took up his permanent residence with Tycho , having been appointed assistant ...
... Kepler , who stayed with him for several months in order that he might carry out some astro- nomical observations . In the following year Kepler returned , and took up his permanent residence with Tycho , having been appointed assistant ...
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... Kepler in his investigation of the laws relating to planetary motion . Tycho Brahé declined to accept the Copernican theory , and devised a system of his own , which he called the Tychonic . ' By this arrangement the Earth remained ...
... Kepler in his investigation of the laws relating to planetary motion . Tycho Brahé declined to accept the Copernican theory , and devised a system of his own , which he called the Tychonic . ' By this arrangement the Earth remained ...
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... KEPLER , one of the very greatest of astronomers , and a man of remarkable genius , who was the first to discover ... Kepler's Laws , ' which will endure for all time as a proof of his sagacity and surpassing genius . Prior to the ...
... KEPLER , one of the very greatest of astronomers , and a man of remarkable genius , who was the first to discover ... Kepler's Laws , ' which will endure for all time as a proof of his sagacity and surpassing genius . Prior to the ...
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... Kepler suffered so much from ill - health that his education had to be neglected . In 1586 he was sent to a monastic school at Maulbronn , which had been established at the Reformation , and was under the patronage of the Duke of ...
... Kepler suffered so much from ill - health that his education had to be neglected . In 1586 he was sent to a monastic school at Maulbronn , which had been established at the Reformation , and was under the patronage of the Duke of ...
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... Kepler then imagined that as there were five regular geometrical solids , and five planets , the distances of the latter were regulated by the size of the solids described round one another . The discovery afterwards of two additional ...
... Kepler then imagined that as there were five regular geometrical solids , and five planets , the distances of the latter were regulated by the size of the solids described round one another . The discovery afterwards of two additional ...
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