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AceJohnny208/01/20251 replyview on HN

Beat me to it. Indeed, from that video I learned that astronomy work requires large and/or longitudinal datasets.

I loved the tidbit that Galileo had a spat with Tycho Brahe because Brahe wouldn't share his data, so Galileo stole it (?)


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2b3a5108/01/2025

Johannes Kepler was in there somewhere I recall. It was Brahe's data on the motions of Mars that lead Kepler to the idea of elliptical orbits.

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