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• Kepler's laws of planetary motion
  Gravity Kepler orbit Kepler problem Kepler's equation Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector Specific relative angular momentum, relatively easy derivation of Kepler's laws
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• Archimedean solid
  Johannes Kepler had completed the rediscovery of the 13 polyhedra, as well as defining the prisms, antiprisms, and the non-convex solids known as Kepler-Poinsot
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• Astronomy:Kepler-62
  name Kepler-62 derives directly from the fact that the star is the catalogued 62nd star discovered by Kepler to have confirmed planets. Kepler-62 is a
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• Regular polyhedron (section Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra)
  these star polyhedra may have been discovered by others before Kepler's time, but Kepler was the first to recognise that they could be considered "regular"
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• Uniform polyhedron
  infinite families of uniform prisms and antiprisms. Kepler (1619) discovered two of the regular Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra, the small stellated dodecahedron
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• Golden ratio (section Kepler triangle)
  University of Tübingen in a letter to Kepler, his former student. The same year, Kepler wrote to Maestlin of the Kepler triangle, which combines the golden
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• Polyhedron
  concerning the five platonic solids", The Mathematics Teacher 62 (1): 42–44, doi:10.5951/mt.62.1.0042  Field, J. V. (1997), "Rediscovering the Archimedean
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• Truncated icosidodecahedron
  non-prismatic solids constructed by two or more types of regular polygon faces. It has 62 faces: 30 squares, 20 regular hexagons, and 12 regular decagons. It has the
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• Rhombicosidodecahedron
  faces, 12 regular pentagonal faces, 60 vertices, and 120 edges. Johannes Kepler in Harmonices Mundi (1618) named this polyhedron a rhombicosidodecahedron
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• List of Wenninger polyhedron models (section Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (Regular star polyhedra) W20, W21, W22 and W41)
  rhombicosidodecahedron deltoidal hexecontahedron 3 5|2 3.4.5.4 Ih U27 K32 60 120 62 20{3} + 30{4} + 12{5} 15 Truncated cuboctahedron (Great rhombicuboctahedron)
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• Antiprism
  is an n-gonal trapezohedron. In his 1619 book Harmonices Mundi, Johannes Kepler observed the existence of the infinite family of antiprisms. This has conventionally
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• Graphics processing unit
  ardware-specs-compare.  "Kepler TM GK110". NVIDIA Corporation. 2012. https://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/kepler/NVIDIA-Kepler-GK110-Architecture-Whitepaper
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• Square pyramid
  Chapter 11, "Kepler triangle theory", pp. 80–91, for material specific to the Kepler triangle, and p. 166 for the conclusion that the Kepler triangle theory
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• Geocentric model
  culture until the 17th century, when Johannes Kepler postulated that orbits were heliocentric and elliptical (Kepler's first law of planetary motion). In 1687
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• Truncated icosahedron
  description of it was found in his posthumous papers, published in 1538. Johannes Kepler later rediscovered the complete list of the 13 Archimedean solids, including
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• Penrose tiling
  tile the plane with regular pentagons necessarily leaves gaps, but Johannes Kepler showed, in his 1619 work Harmonices Mundi, that these gaps can be filled
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• Quincunx
  Poets of Modern Ireland, SIU Press, p. 62, ISBN 9780809322909, https://books.google.com/books?id=0p3x6JtsnLYC&pg=PA62 . Eglash, Ron (April 1997), "The African
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• Petrie polygon
  points where the edges touch the common midsphere. The Petrie polygons of the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra are hexagons {6} and decagrams {10/3}. Infinite regular
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• Euclidean tilings by convex regular polygons
  since antiquity. The first systematic mathematical treatment was that of Kepler in his Harmonices Mundi (Latin: The Harmony of the World, 1619). Euclidean
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• Science
  light. Kepler is best known, however, for improving Copernicus' heliocentric model through the discovery of Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Kepler did
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