NATS 1745 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Orbital Period, Smart People, Protestantism
12 Feb 2014
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1500: tycho made discoveries that dismissed what arostole said . It was argued that it was a really slow commit so hard to track in 16 months not enough time By observing parallax, measuring angles and using geometry, one can determine the distance to various objects in space, typically stars, although other objects in space could be used. Used tycho"s planetary data to discover our modern laws of planetary motion. Kepler believed: the spacing of the planets is defined by a series of geometric shapes around the sun. There are only five 3d shapes that can be constructed with equal faces (the perfect solids . Kepler proposed: the 5 perfect solids define the spacing between the 6 known planets around the sun. Planetary distances arising from kepler"s prefect solids model are nearly consistent with. As a result of the catholic reformation, kepler (a protestant) moved to prague, where he met.
