planetary motion

Although the scientists plan to keep refining planetary motion models and dig through historical observations from the last few decades for signs of the black holes, the main test will be to simply watch and wait.

At the instant of totality, planetary motion as described by Newton and Kepler is not a matter only for scientists and our imaginations.

Thanks for rolling along with us on this tour of coins, testing errors and planetary motion—it’s enough to make anyone’s head spin.

“Just as Galileo set the stage for Sir Isaac Newton, who compiled the laws of planetary motion and gravitation,” the magazine reported, “Schmidt and his colleagues are forcing their contemporaries to exercise their inventive imaginations merely to comprehend what the great observatories have seen, and the clues collected from faint spectrograms may lead science into a new era of understanding.”

The last, Hans, is known to us as Johannes Kepler, the man behind the laws of planetary motion, an imperial mathematician and key figure in the scientific revolution.