On Kepler’s system of conics in Astronomiae pars optica

Archive for History of Exact Sciences 70 (6):567-589 (2016)
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This is an attempt to explain Kepler’s invention of the first “non-cone-based” system of conics, and to put it into a historical perspective.

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10.1007/s00407-016-0175-2

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