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To: patton
I think it was Leibniz, Gottfried Leibniz, not Kepler, who was (is?) the other half of the calculus controversy.
13 posted on 10/23/2003 9:29:49 AM PDT by macamadamia
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To: macamadamia
Johannes Keppler derived "Newton's" laws numerically - Isaac Newton provided the closed form solutions. Both acts were pure genius, but Keppler is oft forgotten.
14 posted on 10/23/2003 9:38:24 AM PDT by patton (I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
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