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“Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.”

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Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist, renowned for his research on the laws of planetary motion. He formulated the famous Kepler's laws, which describe the regularities of planetary orbits around the sun. Kepler's work had a profound impact on the development of astronomy and physics. more

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