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The ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion

The 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...

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Autor principal: Benson, Donald
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1615699