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Lionel Mandrake

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3. You're welcome.

Reply to jimlup (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:12 AM

Jan 2012

Kepler himself tells how he found the first two laws - it's in his book Astronomia nova (1609). The third law took a little longer, although to us it seems the simplest of the three.

The hypothesis that Kepler murdered Brahe is not taken seriously by scholars. You did well to dismiss that hypothesis.

By the way, in Prague there are statues of the two famous astronomers sharing a pedestal:

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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