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The Damned Ellipse

Mike Berger, PhD

Aristotle got it wrong; fortunately
nature didn’t listen to Aristotle.
She has a mind of her own; refusing
to acknowledge Aristotle’s dictum
that the universe is made up of perfect
circles. It took volumes of drawings of
great epicycles to describe the motion
of the planets relying on Aristotle’s dictum.

Even Galileo’s sun centered universe
relied on Aristotle. Planets circle the sun
imperfect circles. Then came Johannes
Kepler who had some weird ideas. He
challenged the perfect circle idea.

Why couldn’t Kepler have left it alone?
He should have kept the perfect circle.
That would imply an ideal world where
nothing ever goes wrong, but that
myopic Kepler had to come up with
that damned ellipse/

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