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The Ballet of the Planets: On the Mathematical Elegance of Planetary Motion

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Survival of the Valid

I. Birth
2 The Bowl of Night
3 Epicycles and Relative Motion
4 The Deferent-Epicycle Model
5 Making Money, Et Cetera

II Rebirth
6 The Reluctant Revolutionary
7 Circles No More
8 The War with Mars

III Enlightenment
9 The Birth of Mechanics
10 The Astronomical Alchemist
A. The Greek Alphabet
B. Vectors

Notes
References
Index

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