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tellect is so utterly feeble that the meaning
of the words in Kepler’s three laws could
not be understood until expounded by the
logic of Newton’s dynamics.
The joy with which Kepler contemplated
the final demonstration of these laws, the
evolution of which had occupied twenty years,
can hardly be imagined by us. He has given
some idea of it in a passage in his work on
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