NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rudolphine Tables, Compass, Orbital Speed
11 Apr 2014
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Used tycho"s planter data to discover our modern laws of planetary motion (kepler"s laws). Germany; he believed that the spacing of the planets is defined by a series of geometric shapes around the sun. His mother interested him in the cosmos itself, showing him celestial events at night 5. In university become a great math mind, become obsessed with geometry. There are only five 3d shapes that can be constructed with equal faces (the. He proposed: the 5 perfect solids define the spaces between the 6 known planets around the sun. Solids model are nearly consistent with copernican distances. As a result of the catholic reformation, kepler (a protestant) moved to prague, where he met tycho. (1600) 10. Kepler wanted to prove heliocentric and tycho wanted to prove geocentric. To prove his theory kepler worked with tycho to use his data. Kepler is known to have poisoned tycho 13.
