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Johannes Kepler wrote Astronomia Nova (1609) in a single-minded drive to sweep away the ancient and medieval clutter of spheres and orbs and to establish a new truth in astronomy, based on physical causality. Thus a good part of the book is given over to a nontechnical discussion of how planets can be made to move through space by physical forces. This is the theme of the readings in the present module.Kepler, Johannes is the author of 'Selections from Kepler's Astronomia Nova', published 2004 under ISBN 9781888009286 and ISBN 1888009284.
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