The logical structure of scientific explanation and prediction: planetary orbits in a sun's gravitational field

DOI10.1007/S11225-010-9257-3MaRDI QIDQ609649zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Neil Tennant

Publication date 1 December 2010

Published in Studia Logica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-010-9257-3

zbMATH Keywords

ellipsehypotheseskinematicseccentricityNewtonfocusderivativesconicspolar coordinatesplanetary orbitpredictionsdirectrixscientific explanationequation of energyhypothetico-deductive modelKeplerlaw of gravitationlaws of motionnatural logicismsemi-latus rectum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Mathematics in general (00A05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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