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jimlup

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1. Very cool info - thanks

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 12:10 AM

Jan 2012

I've become very interested in the life of Kepler over the years. His work is quite impressive. It is hard to imagine how he went from the empirical data to his 3 laws of motion.

I've wondered if there is a possibility that Kepler murdered Brahe in order to have access to the data in the Rudolphine tables. After some more study I have dismissed the hypothesis. Still both Kepler and Brahe were quite eccentric characters.

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Astronomy in a parallel universe [View all] Lionel Mandrake Jan 2012 OP

Very cool info - thanks jimlup Jan 2012 #1

You're welcome. Lionel Mandrake Jan 2012 #3

A note on Kepler's book describing the first two laws Lionel Mandrake Jan 2012 #5

What if gravity were like magnetism? mindwalker_i Jan 2012 #2

Gravity is like magnetism in one respect. Lionel Mandrake Jan 2012 #4

There actually is a gravitational analogue to magnitism... Salviati Jan 2012 #6

+1 jimlup Jan 2012 #7