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Tag: Nature telling her secrets: the Kepler–Descartes connection

  • Nature telling her secrets: the Kepler–Descartes connection

    Ronald Fishman Chicago, Illinois, United States   Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) Nature tells us one secret in terms of another, and she may refuse to disclose one secret until another has been laid bare. – T.S. Kuhn1 In 1604, Johannes Kepler solved the problem of how light is refracted within the eye to produce an image on the…