Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
- English
URL: http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/tycho.htm
shown in filters: Personali, Pubblicazioni These two colorful characters made crucial contributions to our understanding of the universe - Tycho's observations were accurate enough for Kepler to discover that the planets moved in elliptic orbits, and his other laws, which gave Newton the clues he needed to establish universal inverse-square gravitation. [ eng ] |