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Calculate the Orbit of Mars! = An Observing Challenge and Historical Adventure /

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Title/Author:	Calculate the Orbit of Mars!/ by Jane Clark.
Reminder of title:	An Observing Challenge and Historical Adventure /
Author:	Clark, Jane.
Description:	XIII, 316 p. 153 illus., 93 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Astronomy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78267-2
ISBN:	9783030782672

Calculate the Orbit of Mars! = An Observing Challenge and Historical Adventure /
Clark, Jane.

Calculate the Orbit of Mars!An Observing Challenge and Historical Adventure /[electronic resource] :by Jane Clark. - 1st ed. 2021. - XIII, 316 p. 153 illus., 93 illus. in color.online resource.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2. From Eve to Newton: Doubtful Legends about Knowledge from an Apple -- Chapter 3: Weighing the earth with a pendulum -- Chapter 4: Solving an Equation without Moving your Ellipse -- Chapter 5: Where’d the Earth Go? -- Chapter 6: You Don’t Take a Photograph: You Make It -- Chapter 7: Do you see what I see? A Planet, a Planet, Dancing in the Night -- Chapter 8: Without Data, You’re Just another Person with an Opinion -- Chapter 9: Finally we get around to the Answer. .

This book shows readers how to calculate the orbit of Mars, based on their own observations and using observations made by the author. The historical, observational, and analytical aspects of the project to measure the orbit of Mars are all combined in this one book! Determining the orbit of Mars is particularly important, as originally solving this problem required the founding of modern science. Clark discusses how people came to believe in the Newtonian model of the Solar System, works through the mathematical basis for the theory of gravity, and shows how Newton ruled out the possibility of alternative theories. Readers also learn how it became possible to accurately measure the positions of Mars from a moving, spinning platform—the Earth. This mid-level observational challenge is well within reach of most serious amateur astronomers. For the observations, only a telescope with auto-guiding capability and the ability to mount a digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera is required. For the calculations, it is assumed that the reader has a science, engineering, or mathematics background and is familiar with calculus, vectors, and trigonometry.

ISBN: 9783030782672

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-78267-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

593935
Astronomy.

LC Class. No.: QB1-991

Dewey Class. No.: 520

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