According to Gingerich, the book published in 1609 was in essence the first ever to introduce physical principles into the study of astronomy.

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The exhibit displays the work of scientists like paleontologist Philip Gingerich, whose excavations in Pakistan are beginning to fill in some of the many gaps in the fossil record.

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Mr. LEONARD KRISHTALKA (Museum Director): For example, here is a discovery by Gingerich of an ancient whale, its hind leg, and here is the hind leg of the hippopotamus and the structures are very, very similar.

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In the debut issue of a new open access online journal, Euresis, Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and the History of Science at Harvard, offers a fascinating essay on Johannes Kepler and his book Astronomia Nova.

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