Johannes Kepler’s contributions to renessance science
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The ancient greek philosophers had deduced that the Earth were the center of the universe. And everyone since them agreed with them and their methods of finding truths by deduction alone. Nobody dared questioning the wisdom of Arestoteles and would be shunned by the scientific community if they did. But here comes along a group of people, most notably Copernicus, who claimed that Arestoteles was wrong and that the Sun were the center of the solar system and all the planets except the Moon revolved around it rather then the Earth. And along comes Kepler with very accurate proof of this with an almost perfect model of the solar system that were able to predict any astronomical events to extremely high accuracy. This is something which researchers have been trying to do for thousands of years. But he did so by proving the ancient philosophers wrong on such basic things. It exposed them for the hoxes they were. All the scientific literature had to be reviewed because most of it was based on things that Arestoteles had deduced or had used the same techniques of deduction as Arestoteles had done.
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