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Astronomy with Chaucer: using an astrolabe to determine planetary orbits

Popular Physics 2022-10-05 v1

Abstract

Armed with an astrolabe and Kepler's laws one can arrive at accurate estimates of the orbits of planets.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2204.09677,
  title  = {Astronomy with Chaucer: using an astrolabe to determine planetary orbits},
  author = {Michael Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09677},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

28 pages, 19 figures

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