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To: neverdem

bmflr. I’ve never heard of someone retracting their work except when they found errors. That doesn’t appear to be the case with this finding.


72 posted on 10/25/2007 10:49:18 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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Kepler got some things right
Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his work, motivated by the religious conviction that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan which was accessible through the natural light of reason.

Galileo got some things wrong.

refused to accept Kepler's elliptical orbits of the planets considering the circle the "perfect" shape for planetary orbits.
Galileo also said Kepler's idea that the moon caused the tides was "useless fiction."
73 posted on 10/26/2007 4:47:43 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 Americans died in 30 months in Korea under Truman, REWINNING SK freedom.)
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