Add to ORKGThe Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Mathematician Donald Benson shows that ancient theories of planetary motion were based on the assumptions that the Earth was the center of the universe and the planets moved in a uniform circular motion. Since ancient astronomers noted that occasionally a planet would exhibit retrograde motion--would seem to reverse its direction and move briefly westward--they concluded that the planets moved in epicy
Introduction: For thousands of years astronomers tried to model the motion of objects in the sky usi...
The reality of the Earth's motion, as proclaimed by Copernicus, quickly proved contentious. Accepted...
The early modern period saw the rapid development of two fundamental bodies of knowledge, astronomy ...
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The description of the motion of the Sun, Moon, stars, planets and satellites was originally based o...
The most important models before newtonian mechanics and the law of gravitation were stablished by K...
Introduction: For thousands of years astronomers tried to model the motion of objects in the sky usi...
The reality of the Earth's motion, as proclaimed by Copernicus, quickly proved contentious. Accepted...
The early modern period saw the rapid development of two fundamental bodies of knowledge, astronomy ...
Anyone who has gazed into the starry sky with awe and amazement has often wondered what holds things...
In the second century AD, Claudius Ptolemaeus, the astronomer from Alexandria, would provide a geome...
Aristotle was a wise philosopher, but his use of intuitive reasoning misled him in examining the mot...
To the naked eye, the most evident defining feature of the planets is their motion across the night ...
Humans have long been interested in looking up into the sky and trying to figure out the nature of t...
This brief paper describes in a captivating style, which can make it a useful reading selection for ...
Abstract: In any system of bodies, relativistic considerations can provide only those parameters of ...
This lesson introduces the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, the ideas behind it and the explanatio...
in this paper we return to Marshall Clagett’s view about the existence of an ancient Greek geometry ...
Late ancient Platonists discuss two theories in which geometric entities xplain natural phenomena : ...
The description of the motion of the Sun, Moon, stars, planets and satellites was originally based o...
The most important models before newtonian mechanics and the law of gravitation were stablished by K...
Introduction: For thousands of years astronomers tried to model the motion of objects in the sky usi...
The reality of the Earth's motion, as proclaimed by Copernicus, quickly proved contentious. Accepted...
The early modern period saw the rapid development of two fundamental bodies of knowledge, astronomy ...