François Viète's method for calculating the eccentricity in a bisected model and its possible application to Kepler's vicarious hypothesis

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2021.09.002zbMath1490.01013OpenAlexW4200209365MaRDI QIDQ2118259

Christián C. Carman

Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2021.09.002

zbMATH Keywords

eccentricityvicarious hypothesisbisected modelsplanetary modelsthree-observation problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

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• A survey of the Almagest. Edited by Alexander Jones, with annotation and a new commentary
• François Viète's revolution in algebra
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