 He then said boldly that it was impossible that so good an observer as Tycho could be wrong by eight minutes* and added, " out of these eight minutes we will construct a new theory that will explain the motions of all the planets.  History of Astronomy - Page 51by George Forbes - 1909 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Gregory - Research - 1916 - 382 pages
...looked at squarely from a distance of a dozen yards. " Out of these eight minutes," said Kepler, " we will construct a new theory that will explain the motions of all the planets." All previous theories had assumed the existence of uniform circular movement ; and it was only when... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 1316 pages
...epicycles by an amount as great as eight minutes of arc. " Out of these eight minutes," said Kepler, - we will construct a new theory that will explain the motions of affl the planets." 26l The history of the succeeding century of astronomy need not be recapitulated... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - 1926 - 844 pages
...from the established error of eight minutes of arc in the observed position of Mars, had set out " to construct a new theory that will explain the motions of all the planets," so our Medallist sť>t to work to construct a new theory which was incidentally to explain The motion... | |
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