not my own opinion, but my wifes: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. It seems then, I said, if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of water, vinegar, oil and slices of eggs had been flying about in the air for all eternity, it might at last happen by chance that there would come a salad. Yes, responded my lovely, but not so nice as this one of mine.
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About Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler was a 16th-century German astronomer and mathematician. Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. Read more on Wikipedia →

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