Talk:Johannes Kepler
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Removed. It's not clear that previous generations of astronomers had been content to accept authority of ideas. Kepler had new data which other astronomers had, and it took him 20 years to process it all.
- whereas previous generations of astronomers had been content to accept the authority of ideas from previous generations
Removed reference to God. The people that initially came up with the idea that planets moved in circles were the Greeks who did not believe that planets moved in that way because God wanted them to. They were polythestic. The reasons for circles came from Plato, which got absorbed into Christian theology, but that's a whole other article.
Also emphasized the fact that before Tycho, all the data suggested that the planets did move in circles, and that showing that they weren't circles was not obvious (it took Kepler decades.)
Are the two titles The Cosmic Mystery and Misterium Cosmographicum the same book ? It's a bit confusing with alternating Latin and English translated titles.Norwikian 10:34, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Kepler
1620 Keplerīs mother was arrested in Leonburg. the name of the city is Leonberg not Leonburg.
Kepler
He was a exermly smart man who knew what he was doing but should not be regarded as just an asrtomer. His work should be study be all to fully understand the orbits of the planets an d other things in the night sky.
The 'See also' link
Removed the 'See also" link pointing to his laws of planetary motion. The link was superfluous, as there was already a link to that topic within the body of the text! Eilthireach 03:57, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)