https://briankoberlein.com/2016/12/16/wonderful-precision/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 https://briankoberlein.com/2016/12/16/wonderful-precision/#comment-4862 Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:57:38 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6377#comment-4862 Wonderful Precision caught my eye because, as an experimentalist, I question the measurement of temperature to a hundredth of a degree or the need to do so. However, in the case of astronomy I have read that poor precision was the reason that Tyco Brahe began his precise naked-eye observations which allowed Robert Kepler to discover three scientific laws which described (defined) the motions of planets about the sun.

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