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I try to keep in mind that Tycho Brahe was born after Copernicus died, and supplied the data that helped Kepler refine and prove Copernicus right, BUT believed in a weird pre-Copernican “helio-geocentric” theory where the sun revolves around the earth but planets around sun
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Another example is: Leibniz invented calculus, some elements of mechanics, and arguably computers, but as a philosopher played a weird reactionary role resisting Spinoza’s foundational modern thought Contributing to progress is no guarantee of recognizing it happening
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The records were being withheld after Brahe's death by his violent, drunken, mercurial, redneck aristocratic family. Kepler understood their importance but was beginning to despair of how to get them back across several borders to Prague. /1
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