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tacking a problem. His analogy between the
spaces occupied by the five regular solids
and the distances of the planets from the
sun, which filled him with so much delight,
was a display of pure fancy. His demonstra-
tion of the three fundamental laws of plan-
etary motion was the most strict and com-
plete theory that had ever been attempted.
It has been often suggested that the re-
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