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This dimension groups space and astronomy concepts by the year each one was first formulated. Wikipedia notes that astronomy "is one of the oldest natural sciences," with early civilizations already making "methodical observations of the night sky" long before its modern mathematical concepts took shape. Browsing by formulated year lets a visitor compare ideas that arose in the same period of the field's development.

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1. Wikipedia: Kepler's laws of planetary motion
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They were published by Johannes Kepler from 1609 to 1621 in three works Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
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