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SEˆa, SEˆa to SM and to each other.
For the orbit of Mars observations were
chosen at intervals of a year, when the earth
was always in the same place.
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But Kepler saw much farther than the
geometrical facts. He realised that the or-
bits are followed owing to a force directed
to the sun; and he guessed that this is the
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