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Original form of Kepler's Third Law and its misapplication in Propositions XXXII-XXXVII in Newton's Principia (Book I)

The original form of Kepler's Third Law contains a caveat regarding the requirement of small eccentricities – a fact that has not been incorporated by the traditional Newtonian derivations. This constraint is analyzed, and a re-clarification of the real meaning of “mean distance” in the law is...

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Autor principal: Vijaya, Gopi Krishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6395789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30886926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01274