A note on `Kepler's equation' (Q1365473)
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A note on `Kepler's equation' (English)
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19 January 1998
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The author suggests a refinement to Moulton's procedure for solving Kepler's equation by means of a finite approximation in case of moderately small eccentricities. He pays tribute to O. Neugebauer for having discovered the equivalence with Kepler's equation of a Greek chord function controlling lunar motion. He also mentions that al-Marwazi's iterative technique for solving that equation was by far superior to Kepler's one for handling his equation.
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one-body problem
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al-Marwazi
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