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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.”
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(Heidelberg, 1609) Chapter 19, 113 - 14, KGW 3 177 -78.
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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.