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Under his strategy, called "Kepler's 2020" Madan, 46, plans to split Kepler's into two entities: a nonprofit to support the popular lecture and author appearance series, and a for-profit to support the less-popular notion of buying books in a store.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Sam Whiting 2012
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The large folio volume is widely cited for promoting acquaintance with Kepler's elliptical planetary paths.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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I don't think there was much opposition to Kepler's discoveries as such.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The criticisms by Maestlin, Kepler's teacher, that I can find have nothing to do with ellliptical orbits, but to speculating on physical interpretations of Kepler's laws.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The claim was, there was widespread nonreligious opposition to Kepler's ellipses on metaphysical grounds, implicitly because the circle was the perfect figure.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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But Kepler believed in a physically real cosmos, and even ahead of Galileo advocated the Sun-centred system … It was Kepler's requirement for plausible physical explanations that drove him ultimately to postulate an ellipse as the basic form of planetary orbits, ironing out these difficulties.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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For all that, Boulliau roundly rejected Kepler's peculiar mix of ideas concerning the physical causes of the planetary motions.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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I don't think there was much opposition to Kepler's discoveries as such.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The claim was, there was widespread nonreligious opposition to Kepler's ellipses on metaphysical grounds, implicitly because the circle was the perfect figure.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Even Kepler's teacher and mentor, Michael Maestlin, urged him to forget about physics and stick to astronomy (that is, geometry).
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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