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The Harmony of the Spheres (2195 words) |
 | Starting in the 6th century BCE, a number of early philosophers in the Ionian city of Miletus began the break from traditional beliefs with the first attempts to formulate rational cosmologies based on empirical observations -- as limited as these observations were. |
| The early heliocentric theory of Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BCE) for example, while considered to be of great significance today by historians, appears to have been of little note in antiquity though some of his other theories were of great import. |
| Kepler first encountered the Copernican theorem when he attended university in the early 1590s, wherein he became preoccupied with the six planets and their motions. |
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Famine (3733 words) |
| 1590s saw the worst famines in centuries across all of Europe, except in certain areas, notably the Netherlands. |
| 1590s began the period of famine and decline in the seventeenth century. |
| The increasing number of wage labourers in the countryside were vulnerable because they had no food of their own, and their meager living was not enough to purchase the expensive grain of a bad-crop year. |
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