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01 Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth
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02 Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory
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03 Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
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04 Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the telescope
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05 Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition
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06 Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices
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07 Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton
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08 Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation
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10 Lecture X: Roemer & Bradley and the Velocity of Light
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11 Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis
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12 Lecture XII: Herschel and The Motion of the Fixed Stars
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13 Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods
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14 Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets
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15 Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune
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16 Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors
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17 Lecture XVII: The Tides
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18 Lecture XVIII: The Tides, and Planetary Evolution