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Old 21-February-2005, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by ngc3314
The practice was evidently fading in the generation after Copernicus/Kopernik, since we still remember Galilei, Brahe, Kepler.
A little nitpick: Tycho Brahe is a latinized version of Tyge Brahe.
Thanks for the correction. Even as prominently as he figured in a biography of Kepler I just finished, I never knew that.
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