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    The elliptical path of planets is causally produced by magnetic attraction and repulsion between the Sun and the planets.

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    • 1.Planets are poles of magnets.
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    • 2.The Sun acts with magnetic power.
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    • 3.At different parts of their orbits, planets are either attracted to or repelled by the Sun.
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    • 1.Magnetic force in Gilbert's framework acts along field lines toward poles, not as a variable attractive-repulsive force along a radial axis.
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    • 2.Kepler's model requires the Sun to alternately attract and repel the same planetary pole, which contradicts the fixed polarity principle of Gilbertian magnetism.
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    • 3.A force mechanism that violates the empirical properties of the phenomenon it invokes cannot serve as a causal explanation of that phenomenon.
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    • 1.Newton demonstrated that elliptical orbits follow mathematically from an inverse-square gravitational force requiring no repulsive component at any orbital position.
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    • 2.When two causal hypotheses both entail the same observed phenomenon, the one requiring fewer ad hoc mechanical stipulations holds greater explanatory warrant.
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    • 3.Kepler's magnetic repulsion is an ad hoc stipulation introduced solely to produce orbital recession, lacking independent empirical confirmation.
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    Kepler’s causal approach is above all present in his Epitome, a voluminous work which exercised a considerable influence on the later development of astronomy. In the second part of Book 4, he deals with the motion of the world’s parts. Not the two first laws but rather the third law, which he had recently announced in his HM, is Kepler’s starting point; for this law, rather than a calculational device for the path of one planet, represents a general cosmological statement, and thus it is more c
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