Johannes Kepler · Science

The War on Mars

The decade-long battle over a single planet’s orbit - the most honest logbook of failure in the history of science, and the calculation that finally broke the circle.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Kepler waged a near-decade-long ‘war on Mars,’ abandoning the circle only because Tycho’s data of Mars left him no alternative. In your own words, explain why Mars in particular was the planet that broke the circle, and why Kepler’s method of publishing his dead ends was as revolutionary a…

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