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		AceJohnny2 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slow Beat me to it. Indeed, from that video I learned that astronomy work requires large and/or longitudinal datasets. I loved the tidbit that Galileo had a spat with Tycho Brahe because Brahe wouldn't share his data, so Galileo stole it (?)

2b3a51 8 months ago [–]

Johannes Kepler was in there somewhere I recall. It was Brahe's data on the motions of Mars that lead Kepler to the idea of elliptical orbits.

AceJohnny2 8 months ago | [–]

Oops, I may have confused Kepler for Galileo

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