A Mathematician's Musings on the Elegance of Planetary Motion
by
Donald Benson
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Mathematician Donald Benson shows that ancient theories of planetary motion were based on the assumptions...