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... Kepler in his undertaking . The chair of mathematics in the University of Linz having become vacant , Kepler offered himself as a candidate for the appointment , which he was anxious to obtain ; but the Emperor Rudolph was averse to his ...
... Kepler in his undertaking . The chair of mathematics in the University of Linz having become vacant , Kepler offered himself as a candidate for the appointment , which he was anxious to obtain ; but the Emperor Rudolph was averse to his ...
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... Kepler was reappointed Imperial Mathematician ; he was also permitted to hold the professorship at Linz , to which he had been elected . Kepler was not loth to remove from Prague , where he had spent eleven years harassed by poverty and ...
... Kepler was reappointed Imperial Mathematician ; he was also permitted to hold the professorship at Linz , to which he had been elected . Kepler was not loth to remove from Prague , where he had spent eleven years harassed by poverty and ...
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... Kepler , who made his calcula- tions from Tycho's observations , and based them upon his own great discovery of the ellipticity of the orbits of the planets . They are divided into four parts . The first and third parts contain loga ...
... Kepler , who made his calcula- tions from Tycho's observations , and based them upon his own great discovery of the ellipticity of the orbits of the planets . They are divided into four parts . The first and third parts contain loga ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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