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“To us, on whom Divine benevolence has bestowed the most diligent of observers, Tycho Brahe, from whose observations this eight-minute error of Ptolemy's in regard to Mars is deduced, it is fitting that we accept with grateful minds this gift from God, and both acknowledge and build upon it.”
(Heidelberg, 1609) Chapter 19, 113 - 14, KGW 3 177 -78.
Astronomia Nova (1609)
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Astronomia Nova is a book published by Johannes Kepler that agreed with books written by Copernicus and Newton.
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It was written on Brahe’s observations on Mars, ideas of planetary rotations, and other phenomena in space.
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Kepler wrote that astronomy was based on physics rather than models, something that was revolutionary at that time.
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The book held his first two laws of planetary motion.
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This book was significant in the Scientific Revolution because he rejected the Aristotelian ideas, which were long accepted by the scientific community and the Church.
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One of the first few books published in order to support the heliocentric theory.
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This book was not fully accepted or recognized until Isaac Newton credited it for parts of his findings.