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direction of dynamical, or physical, astron-
omy.
Until the time of Kepler no one seems to
have conceived the idea of universal phys-
ical forces controlling terrestrial phenom-
ena, and equally applicable to the heav-
enly bodies. The grand discovery by Ke-
pler of the true relationship of the Sun to
the Planets, and the telescopic discoveries
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