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	In Pursuit of Intelligent Causes: Some Historical Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kepler wondered "whether the laws [of nature] are such, that they probably can be known to the planet."{28} He even referred to the "mind" of the planet.
		Kepler was a man in process, whose thought and vocabulary at the time of writing Mysterium Cosmographicum, his first book, was still significantly informed by the old animistic tradition of the Pythagoreans who believed the universe was a divine, living being.
		Newton was a giant in science, and like Bacon, Kepler, and Galileo before him he "came to the investigation of nature with presuppositions drawn from Christianity which colored his idea of nature."{36} Newton combined the work of his predecessors, especially that of Kepler,{37} with his own ingenius contributions to create a masterful synthesis.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/thaxton/docs/inpursuit.html (8282 words)

	ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI & SEPT. 11TH, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kepler's founding of the first approximation of a comprehensive mathematical physics, is the most appropriate setting for pin-pointing the way in which the crucial issues of truthfulness have been fought out during the recent seven centuries of modern European history.
		Kepler adopted the evidence which showed the orbit of Mars, for example, to be anomalously contrary to the aprioristic, Euclidean assumptions of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Brahe.
		The significance of Kepler's discoveries, located in the framework of that question, is that Kepler's choice of an implicitly universal subject- matter, experimental astrophysics, was a uniquely appropriate location from which to conduct the exploration of the search for knowledge of truly universal physical principles in general.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It hardly need be underscored that Cunitz was a Copernican, accepting the motion of the earth, and not least, that she was among the first to fathom the rich complexities of Kepler's cosmology and the mysteries of his theory of planetary motion.
		Cunitz was praised for extending Kepler's efforts and simplifying his calculation procedures for eclipses and especially for planetary latitudes.
		Her unpublished correspondence, virtually unknown, demonstrates that most of her letters and correspondence were lost in a fire during the night of 25 May 1656.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/sr-women/05-SR-WOMEN-CUNITZ-PAGE-bio.html (926 words)

	Kepler
		At 9.55 we were dropped off at the car park and 5 minutes later we were at the start of the Kepler Track at the lake level control gates.
		The Kepler Track can be walked in either direction (though the way we were travelling was the most popular) so we met a few walkers coming the other way.
		As the drizzle had almost stopped we took a short side track to Aboedoid Mire, a large wetland tarn, to take a look at the view and read about plant and bird life in wetland areas.
	www.waymarker.co.uk /ml/walks/kepler.htm (1547 words)

	Scoop: Hobbits Not Welcome in Kahurangi National Park
		Kepler Mire is the largest of the wetlands in the Te Anau Basin wetland complex and is the largest known string bog in New Zealand.
		The Mire lies in a depression between a set of low moraine hills formed by an ancient ice sheet which once covered the area.
		The Kepler Mire is of special value for its endemic plants, especially the Yellow - silver Pines shrubs and Pygmy Pine and several mosses which are all uncommon either locally or nationally.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL9911/S00103.htm (1779 words)

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		Philosophically, our western culture has been mired down in 'materialism', where material things and tangible or 'factual' information is valued more than the qualitative 'shape' of nature and the artist and more than the intangible myth which captures the implicit understanding of the ages,...
		Kepler would never have bought into Newton's making gravity a property of 'things', and when the same idea started to be applied to electricity,...
		Kepler provided us with an example of a scientist who translated the results of his own mental modeling into equations.
	www.goodshare.org /ecoport.htm (10783 words)

	The Lord of the Rings and Vertical Limits Film Concessions
		The potential effects of 25 crew and boats and helicopters cannot logically be regarded as minor and mitigated given the international ecological significance and high sensitivity of the mire.
		It is hard to see how the potentially damaging use of an ecologically sensitive area of international significance such as the Kepler Mire for filming a fantasy film could be considered appropriate.
		Filming of a fantasy film was considered consistent with the conservation of the Kepler Mire, a wetland of international ecological significance, in spite of that significance and its fragility being clearly noted in the Mainland Southland - West Otago CMS.
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		Not that Kepler ascribed to astrology in the manner in which it was and is presented,..., as he said,..
		What mainstream science has been saying, ever since Newton built his 'mathematical principles of nature' by stripmining Kepler's three laws of motion, is that Kepler 'got it wrong' and had the roles of space and matter reversed.
		Kepler's ideas on harmony are not dead by any means, as indicated by the words emanating from Karlsruhe University;...
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	Fuzzert: September 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The terrific turnout at the Save Kepler's rally was a heartening sign to those of us who are rooting for the reopening of the famed bookstore.
		Kepler said he has received an outpouring of community support since the store's abrupt closure Wednesday.
		The closing of Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park has brought an outpouring of grief and rays of hope from around the country and the blogosphere.
	www.fuzzert.com /archives/2005/09 (3421 words)

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		Physics has chosen to ignore or back-shelf the finding of Johannes Kepler which said that the system of sun and planets together produced their own resonant 'containing field' which governed not only what the planets did, but also shaped what they 'could not do'.
		Newton pointed out in his author's preface to 'Principia', as Kepler had done before him in 'Harmonies of the World', that while our science which looks at the properties and behaviors of things can explain how things work 'after the fact',...
		This is in spite of the fact that science knows, at least since the time of Kepler, that 'what is done' reciprocally influences 'what can be done' and 'what is not done', the opening up and closing down of opportunity.
	www.goodshare.org /cultural.htm (3502 words)

	Teens@Random--Search \| The Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick
		It had started in the last few days of the year as Boy and Willow had been swept along by the magician Valerian in his ultimately futile quest for survival.
		The snow obliterated broken slates and chimney stacks, removed all traces of dilapidated walls and rotting windowsills and laid a clean and soft white carpet along every alley, street, avenue and parade, that was renewed every night.
		And beyond Valerian's death, there was what the scientist Kepler had said, right before the end.
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	LaRouche: Zbigniew Brzezinski And September 11th-Part 2
		Under the influence of pagan Roman ideology and the derived Romanticism which persisted in feudal Europe, the most widely accepted formal systems of thought, were premised axiomatically on kinds of ivory-tower assumptions commonly associated with the name of Aristotle.
		The significance of Kepler's discoveries, located in the framework of that question, is that Kepler's choice of an implicitly universal subject-matter, experimental astrophysics, was a uniquely appropriate location from which to conduct the exploration of the search for knowledge of truly universal physical principles in general.
		Through the death of Bernhard Riemann, the leading currents in European physical science are traced from Nicholas of Cusa, through the succession of such as Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Leibniz, Kästner, the Carnot faction inside the Ecole Polytechnique, Alexander von Humboldt, Gauss, Wilhelm Weber, Alexander von Humboldt's protégé Dirichlet, and Riemann.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /lar_related/lar_brz_122301-2.html (9174 words)

	Sites: What's where on Mt. Hamilton
		Its existence is relevant only because of the later construction of the 24-inch dome adjacent to it and the cartographic confusion of all the circular structures on Kepler Peak.
		As of 1996 the only remaining evidence of this dome is a brick circle with a rectangular depression and a grounding cable to its north.
		At this time the structures on Kepler Peak were the 1882 brick and cement tank to the north and the 150000 gallon steel tank to the south.
	www.ucolick.org /~sla/mtham/sites.html (2867 words)

	TheOneRing.net™ \| Features \| NZ Exclusives \| The Search for Middle-earth \| Southwards! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Some time ago the film company applied for permission from the Department of Conservation in order to have a film crew and three actors work in the Kepler Mire, which is a big swamp near Te Anau.
		I headed out to the Kepler Mire, which turned out to be a happy healthy swamp full of springy vegetation covered in flowers.
		All the plants are brown, which I suppose can be made to look a bit sick, but to me it looked like a swamp in tip-top form.
	www.theonering.net /features/exclusives/thesearch/chapter04.html (1218 words)

	Ch 7 Marriage
		Kepler, in developing his cosmology of the solar system in the late 1500's and early 1600's, used the mathematics of conic sections as developed by Apollonius in deriving his three planetary laws, which became part of the basis for Newton's law of gravity and its application to our solar system.
		Kepler's contemporary Galileo, also very influential on Newton, made much of the mathematics of Archimedes, one of the other great mathematicians of antiquity, who worked somewhat later than Apollonius in the 3rd century B.C. Galileo often referred to Archimedes using such phrases as "the divine Archimedes" or the "superhuman Archimedes" (in Italisn).
		Archimedes extended the work of Eudoxus on volumes of spheres, right circular cylinders and right circular cones, and found a very accurate approximation to the number which is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, the number we call π.
	gfisher.org /chapter_4.htm (11674 words)

	11-19-99: Hobbits in Kepler Mine Upset Forest and Bird
		Forest and Bird's southern conservation officer Sue Maturin said she was disappointed Lord of the Rings production company Three Foot Six Ltd had been granted consent to film in the Kepler Mire in the Te Anau basin.
		It pointed out the mire was an ancient string bog, unusual in the southern hemisphere.
		The wetland contained rare and delicate plants and was an important habitat of the grey duck, New Zealand fern bird and Australasian bittern.
	www.tolkien-movies.com /words/1999/11-19-99a.htm (412 words)

	Australia+ Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The start of the spectacular alpine ridge-walking section of the Kepler Track.
		Rains hit the Kepler Track just as I leave the track and return to Te Anau.
		Dinner in Te Anau with new friends -- from Germany, South Africa, the U.K., and Australia -- made on the track.
	neon.polkaroo.net /~papadop/australia/pics/index_all.php?sel=kepler (259 words)

	PKT message, Re: On the Rightful Place of Emotions in Science
		After all, what is "common sense" but the > > common store of accepted knowledge within a given community, at a given time > > and in a given place.
		It is "common sense" today to talk about the earth > > revolving around the sun, but in Kepler's day, he was marginalized as a nut > > for saying so.
		(1) > Kepler understood the theory he was arguing against, while you do not.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/pkt/1997m06-a/msg00058.htm (985 words)

	Islamic Voice - Safar / Rabi-Ul Awwal 1422 H
		Moreover, they were the medium through which ancient science and philosophy were recovered, supplemented and transmitted in such a way as to make possible the renaissance of Western Europe.
		In all this, Arabic Spain had a large share.” (Ibid., P. It can well be concluded that this eternal and evergreen scripture has the capacity of leading the present generation out of the mire they are in, in much the same way it awakened the Arabs from their slumber fourteen hundred years ago.
		Thus the revival of the Muslim Ummah could never be achieved by turning away from Islam, but such endeavour has its direct patronage and guidance.Never should anyone think that the Muslim nations do not possess the capacity and ability of inventing and discovering.
	www.islamicvoice.com /may.2002/quran.htm (1459 words)

	Rationality of Islam
		It will thus be seen that the only way to get out of this mire is the acknowledgement of the Self- Sustaining First Cause.
		As Kepler, the famous scientist and founder of modern Astronomy has said, "The more we know about the creation and grandeur of heavenly bodies, the deeper should be our faith."
		Thus there exists a close relationship between the progress of sciences and the firmness of faith in God.
	www.al-islam.org /rationality/3.htm (2754 words)

	THE TRAGEDY OF MAN (angol/English)
		Before it is a wide balcony with Kepler’s writing-table, chair and astronomical implements.
		In the garden groups of courtiers and ladies are walking; among them EVE as Barbara, the wife of Kepler.
		The Emperor RUDOLPH is deeply engaged in conversation with ADAM as Kepler.
	mek.oszk.hu /00900/00915/html/madach8.htm (1424 words)

	The Lord of the Rings and Trojan Horses
		Three specific activities prohibited by a management plan, use of horses, use of helicopters and use of the Mangatururu area, were only declined after mitigation measures had been discounted.
		Filming of a fantasy film was considered acceptable in the Kepler Mire, a wetland of international ecological significance, in spite of that significance and its fragility being clearly noted in the Mainland Southland - West Otago conservation management strategy.
		11 Burrows, C. J and Dobson, A. Mires of the Manapouri - Te Anau Lowlands.
	users.actrix.co.nz /simonjohnson/lotr.htm (2215 words)

	Lord of the Rings New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Dead Marshes were inspired by Kepler Mire in the Te Anau region.
		It was originally intended to be a film location, but after the crew tried and failed to find any solid ground to stand on, they decided to recreate Kepler Mire in a Wellington backlot.
		Te Anau, a small town, nestled on the edge of the massive Fiordland National Park, was the base for filming in a number of The Two Towers locations.
	www.destination-nz.com /page.php?x=content/lotr.html (1806 words)

	Wellington Botanical Society trip report to Southland
		This gently sloping mire is raised 6m and is surrounded by a natural drainage channel (or lagg).
		On the mire, wire rush (Empodisma minus), manuka (Leptospermum scoparium), and Dracophyllum oliveri dominated.
		The last area of particular interest was the edge of the mire, where bush was re-establishing among the bog pine (Halocarpus bidwillii).
	wellingtonbotsoc.wellington.net.nz /tripreports/2001/southland.html (4100 words)

	Mackay, Charles, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Chapter 6: Library of Economics ...
		A medal was afterwards struck in commemoration of the event; upon one side of which was figured the nativity of the prince, representing him as driving the chariot of Apollo, with the inscription "Ortus solis Gallici,"—the rising of the Gallic sun.
		The best excuse ever made for astrology was that offered by the great astronomer, Kepler, himself an unwilling practiser of the art.
		He had many applications from his friends to cast nativities for them, and generally gave a positive refusal to such as he was not afraid of offending by his frankness.
	www.econlib.org /library/Mackay/macEx6.html (6974 words)

	William G. Most
		A point on the line from its center to the center of the epicycle moved at constant speed around the equant—the result was variation in speed of the epicycle around the deferent.
		Through impious pride they go away form you and suffer an eclipse of your light—if they could even predict eclipses, they should have found God.—In spite of the theoretical error of the system of Ptolemy, yet, as a result of long making of records, the astronomer of that days could predict eclipses accurately.
		The bier of her thought—a fine allusion to the widow of Naim, whose son was on the bier, being carried to burial, but Jesus raised him: Lk 7: 12.
	www.ewtn.com /library/THEOLOGY/527AUG1.htm (18547 words)

	Why I Am Agnostic
		And here, allow me to say that the ministers who are answering me are turning their guns in the wrong direction.
		They should malign and vilify Kepler, Copernicus, Newton, Herschel and Laplace.
		These men were the real destroyers of the sacred story.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~ddoty/RobertIngersoll-WhyIAmAgnostic.htm (10318 words)

	Catholic Culture : Library : Most Theological Collection : Search
		A point on the line from its center to the center of the epicycle moved at constant speed around the equant - the result was variation in speed of the epicycle around the deferent.
		This theory was gradually abandoned when Kepler proved orbits are elliptical.
		Ps 69.3: "I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me."
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/most/getchap.cfm?worknum=7&chapNum=1&numbers=yes (16836 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For Michael E. Tymn: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Much of the book deals with the existing scientific paradigm and the downside of the "progress" it has brought, including overpopulation, resource exhaustion, unacceptable pollution, global warming, and catastrophic climate changes.
		An early chapter is devoted to examining the evolution of "scientism," beginning with Roger Bacon and continuing on through Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Leibniz, Darwin, and others.
		The author discusses the concomitant philosophy accompanying the advances in science, calling Nietzsche "the most powerful and destructive philosopher affecting the breakdown of the Greek philosophy accepted in the West from the 13th Century."
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3APJMSML413TS?_encoding=UTF8 (4446 words)

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