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Gerry Myerson
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Perhaps it would be useful to record some of the failures of numerology as well, e.g., Kepler's attempt to model the solar system by inserting the five Platonic solids among the six planets that were known in his day. Kepler's eventual success with ellipses could be viewed as numerology as well, as the theoretical basis for it had to wait for Newton.