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

DOI10.1007/BF00348449MaRDI QIDQ762041zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

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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