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KEPLER

Pioneers of Progress

Men of Science
Edited by S. Chapman, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.

Kepler

By
Walter W. Bryant
Of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

London:
Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge
New York: The Macmillan Company
1920

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

PAGE

I.

Astronomy before Kepler

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II.

Early Life of Kepler

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III.

Tycho Brahe

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IV.

Kepler joins Tycho

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V.

Kepler's Laws

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VI.

Closing Years

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Appendix I.—List of dates

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Appendix II.—Bibliography

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Glossary

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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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