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Astronomy from Kepler to Newton
EN NWISBN: 9780860782384 bzw. 0860782387, in Englisch, Taylor & Francis Ltd, neu.
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For long it has been accepted that Kepler â provedâ three empirical laws of planetary motion, and that Newton depended upon these in â establishingâ his law of universal gravitation. As Professor Wilson demonstrates, the truth is more complicated - but more interesting. The question of observational evidence therefore forms the theme of this volume. The first articles trace the evolution of Keplerâ s ideas and reconstruct the steps in his journey. Their conclusion is that observational error inevitably prevented any satisfactory direct verification of Keplerâ s first law so, as Kepler himself recognised, his results rested upon hypothesis. The final articles present a similar study of Newtonâ s thoughts on gravitation and planetary motion: again, as Newton left it, the theory he propounded can be considered no more or less than a hypothesis. In between Professor Wilson examines the attitudes of mid-17th-century astronomers to Keplerâ s ideas, and in particular, the achievements of Jeremiah Horrocks: he died in 1640, at the age of only twenty-two, but his improvements in Keplerian astronomy were of great importance for Newtonâ s future work.
For long it has been accepted that Kepler â provedâ three empirical laws of planetary motion, and that Newton depended upon these in â establishingâ his law of universal gravitation. As Professor Wilson demonstrates, the truth is more complicated - but more interesting. The question of observational evidence therefore forms the theme of this volume. The first articles trace the evolution of Keplerâ s ideas and reconstruct the steps in his journey. Their conclusion is that observational error inevitably prevented any satisfactory direct verification of Keplerâ s first law so, as Kepler himself recognised, his results rested upon hypothesis. The final articles present a similar study of Newtonâ s thoughts on gravitation and planetary motion: again, as Newton left it, the theory he propounded can be considered no more or less than a hypothesis. In between Professor Wilson examines the attitudes of mid-17th-century astronomers to Keplerâ s ideas, and in particular, the achievements of Jeremiah Horrocks: he died in 1640, at the age of only twenty-two, but his improvements in Keplerian astronomy were of great importance for Newtonâ s future work.
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