Original form of Kepler's Third Law and its misapplication in Propositions XXXII-XXXVII in Newton's Principia (Book I)
The original form of Kepler's Third Law contains a caveat regarding the requirement of small eccentricities – a fact that has not been incorporated by the traditional Newtonian derivations. This constraint is analyzed, and a re-clarification of the real meaning of “mean distance” in the law is...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Heliyon |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018386961 |