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Kepler's polyhedra

The article says "(within the accuracy limits of the available astronomical observations)". I am not sure that this is true. With his selected arrangement of his polyhedra, the errors were still in the region of 10%. This seems to be bigger than the errors in the observations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.183.16.116 (talk) 12:34, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See Johannes Kepler#Mysterium Cosmographicum.

Did Kepler steal Brahe's data?

In The Mechanical Universe, it is claimed that Kepler stole the data from Brahe's family after he died. Is this well founded?? Michel Djerzinski (talk) 09:13, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Can someone who has the book verify two things for me? It pertains to this change.

"He admitted later on after Susanna became ill…"

Firstly, can someone check Connor's book to see whether it was after Susanna's death or her falling ill that Kepler made this admission?

Secondly, regarding his admission, no luck seeing the pages via Google preview, but Amazon's look inside let me see that, on p. 228, Kepler is quoted: "I fell for her because of her tall build and athletic body…" This quote, however, is not within the page range (pp. 251–4) given in the cite for Connor's book. --YeOldeGentleman (talk) 14:46, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]