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Yes, last night's was a great program. I had read a bit about these people before but didn't realise, for example, that Tycho Brahe put together his own model -the other planets going around the Sun and the whole lot then orbiting the Earth - after painstaking observations trying to show that the Earth actually moved. I'd always had the impression that he was just an ego driven being trying to push his model at the expense of any others.
It was interesting, too, to see that those very clever people, Kepler and Newton in particular, often had as part of their make-up a deep religious and/or mystical belief; although it is equally interesting that THAT is not what they became famous for, and that their discoveries in the end had no need of them.
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