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added: ”Out of these eight minutes we will
construct a new theory that will explain the
motions of all the planets.” And he did it,
with elliptic orbits having the sun in a focus
of each.[2]
It is often difficult to define the bound-
aries between fancies, imagination, hypoth-
esis, and sound theory. This extraordinary
genius was a master in all these modes of at-
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