Kepler's Move from Orbs to Orbits: Documenting a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

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Bernard R. Goldstein, Giora Hon

Publication date: 4 February 2016

Published in: Perspectives on Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/1063614053714126

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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