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necesse est, eas hypotheses esse veras, imo
                                         ne verisimiles quidem, sed sufficit hoc usum,
                                         si calculum observationibus congruentem ex-
                                         hibeant.”
                                            BOOK II. THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD
                                            5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SO-
                                         LAR SYSTEM–TYCHO BRAHE–KEPLER.
                                            During the period of the intellectual and
                                         aesthetic revival, at the beginning of the
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