1609
Science
Central Europe
Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Kepler derived elliptical orbits from Tycho Brahe's precise observations.
Why it mattered
Replaced circles with physics and made prediction exact.
Renaissance
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Kepler derived elliptical orbits from Tycho Brahe's precise observations.
Why it mattered
Replaced circles with physics and made prediction exact.
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