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![KeplerLaw1](https://sites.williams.edu/transitofvenus/files/2012/08/KeplerLaw1-199x300.jpg)
The title page of Kepler’s “Astronomia Nova” (1609), in which he advanced his first two laws.
(Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)
![KeplerLaw3](https://sites.williams.edu/transitofvenus/files/2012/08/KeplerLaw3-223x300.jpg)
The title page of Kepler’s “Harmonices Mundi” (1619), in which he advanced his third law.
(Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)
![RudolphineTable](https://sites.williams.edu/transitofvenus/files/2012/08/RudolphineTable-199x300.jpg)
The title page of Kepler’s “Rudolphine Tables,” from which he predicted transits of Mercury and of Venus in 1631.
![Solarsystem_Latin](https://sites.williams.edu/transitofvenus/files/2012/08/Solarsystem_Latin-300x290.jpg)
Copernicus’s famous sun-centered diagram from his “De Revolutionibus” (1543).
(Courtesy of Jay M. Pasachoff)