Ballet of the Planets: On the Mathematical Elegance of Planetary Motion

by Donald Benson

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 that the Earth was the center of the universe and the planets moved in a uniform circular motion. Since ancient astronomers noted that occasionally a planet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199891001
• ISBN13: 9780199891009
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"