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... TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA- GRANGE , LAPLACE , ETC. 60 9 ...
... TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA- GRANGE , LAPLACE , ETC. 60 9 ...
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... Tycho Brahe ; and was as true a representation of the relative motions in the solar system as when we suppose the sun to be fixed and the earth to revolve . The cumbrous system advocated by Ptolemy answered its purpose , enabling him to ...
... Tycho Brahe ; and was as true a representation of the relative motions in the solar system as when we suppose the sun to be fixed and the earth to revolve . The cumbrous system advocated by Ptolemy answered its purpose , enabling him to ...
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... Tycho Brahe , with the earth fixed . But he now recalled and accepted the views of Pythagoras and others , according to which the sun is fixed and the earth revolves ; and it must be noted that , geometri- cally , there is no difference ...
... Tycho Brahe , with the earth fixed . But he now recalled and accepted the views of Pythagoras and others , according to which the sun is fixed and the earth revolves ; and it must be noted that , geometri- cally , there is no difference ...
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... Tycho Brahe was pleased with this device , and adapted it to his own system . by Copernicus . But attention must , to state the 26 THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD.
... Tycho Brahe was pleased with this device , and adapted it to his own system . by Copernicus . But attention must , to state the 26 THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD.
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... Tycho Brahe ) " proofs of the physical truth of his system Copernicus had given none , and could give none , " any more than Pythagoras or Aristarchus . There was nothing so startlingly simple in his system as to lead the cautious ...
... Tycho Brahe ) " proofs of the physical truth of his system Copernicus had given none , and could give none , " any more than Pythagoras or Aristarchus . There was nothing so startlingly simple in his system as to lead the cautious ...
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