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”Johannes Kepler” (original in Strassburg).]
It has seemed to many that Plato’s de-
mand for uniform circular motion (linear or
angular) was responsible for a loss to as-
tronomy of good work during fifteen hun-
dred years, for a hundred ill-considered spec-
ulative cosmogonies, for dissatisfaction, amount-
˜
ing to disgust, with these A priori guesses,
and for the relegation of the science to less
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