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Kepler's Trigon — A diagram of great conjunctions by Johannes Kepler. While teaching, he had the striking realization that a circle was inscribed by the periodic occurrence of the conjunctions and that might be related to the orbits of the plants.
Photo Credit: By Johannes Kepler - De Stella Nova in pede Serpentarii (1606), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16622989
Kepler's Trigon A diagram of great conjunctions by Johannes Kepler. While teaching, he had the striking realization that a circle was inscribed by the periodic occurrence of the conjunctions and that might be related to the orbits of the plants.
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Monument to Tycho Brahe and Kepler in Prague, Czech Republic —
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Monument to Tycho Brahe and Kepler in Prague, Czech Republic
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Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar system — By Johannes Kepler from his Mysterium Cosmographicum Tübingen 1596
Photo Credit: Johannes Kepler: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37300
Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar system By Johannes Kepler from his Mysterium Cosmographicum Tübingen 1596
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan — Co-inventors of SCUBA
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan Co-inventors of SCUBA
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Jacques Cousteau — In his iconic red cap
Photo Credit: The Cousteau Society
Jacques Cousteau In his iconic red cap
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August 1985 Scientific American Cover — A 1985 column in Scientific American showed how simple computer programs could be used to view fractal pioneer Benoit Mandelbrot's eponymous set
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August 1985 Scientific American Cover A 1985 column in Scientific American showed how simple computer programs could be used to view fractal pioneer Benoit Mandelbrot's eponymous set
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The first published picture of the Mandelbrot set, by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelski in 1978 — Mandelbrot himself was introduced to the set that bears his name two years after it was first published
Photo Credit: By Elphaba - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1627040
The first published picture of the Mandelbrot set, by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelski in 1978 Mandelbrot himself was introduced to the set that bears his name two years after it was first published
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Cover of The Fractal Geometry of Nature — by Benoît Mandelbrot 1982
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Cover of The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoît Mandelbrot 1982
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Benoît Mandelbrot —
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Benoît Mandelbrot
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Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg — drawing by Willem Blaeu, circa 1595 (Blaeu, Johan: Atlas Major. Amsterdam 1662, vol. 1) - Stjerneborg, today
Photo Credit: Photo: Gudrun Wolfschmidt
Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg drawing by Willem Blaeu, circa 1595 (Blaeu, Johan: Atlas Major. Amsterdam 1662, vol. 1) - Stjerneborg, today
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Stjerneborg Today — Tycho Brahe's Stjerneborg observatory on the island of Hven, restored. 2005
Photo Credit: By Detriment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stjerneborg.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1307949
Stjerneborg Today Tycho Brahe's Stjerneborg observatory on the island of Hven, restored. 2005
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