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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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Oxford University Press
2012
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| author | Benson, Donald |
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| description | 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 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 epicyc |
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| spelling | cern-16156992021-04-21T22:04:54Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1615699engBenson, DonaldThe ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motionAstrophysics and AstronomyThe 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 epicycOxford University Pressoai:cds.cern.ch:16156992012 |
| spellingShingle | Astrophysics and Astronomy Benson, Donald The ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion |
| title | The ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion |
| title_full | The ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion |
| title_fullStr | The ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion |
| title_short | The ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion |
| title_sort | ballet of the planets: a mathematician's musings on the elegance of planetary motion |
| topic | Astrophysics and Astronomy |
| url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1615699 |
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