Epicycles, eccentrics, and ellipses: The predictive capabilities of Copernican planetary models

DOI10.1007/BF00348449zbMATH Open0558.01009OpenAlexW2092592478WikidataQ55931520 ScholiaQ55931520MaRDI QIDQ762041FDOQ762041

Authors: Clayton A. Gearhart 

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00348449

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zbMATH Keywords

CopernicusKepleraccuracy of planetary modelsTycho Brahe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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