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1. Theory of <strong>Celestial</strong> <strong>mechanics</strong><br />

Keplers laws<br />

infered from observations<br />

of Tycho Brahe<br />

I+II [Astronomia nova, 1609]<br />

I. The planets move in ellipses<br />

with the sun in one of the foci.<br />

II. The pointer to a planet moves over equal<br />

areas in equal times<br />

( Conservation of angular Momentum)<br />

III. [Harmonices mundi, 1619]<br />

a3 / T2 = const (approximatively)<br />

a<br />

3<br />

T<br />

2<br />

( M + m )<br />

1 =<br />

1 S 1<br />

a T ( M + m )<br />

3<br />

2<br />

2<br />

2<br />

S<br />

2<br />

(exactly)<br />

3

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