Motion of Astronomical Bodies Part 1 (ASTR 161)

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Channel: Launch Pad Astronomy · 2016 · Education

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Discussion on part 1 of Motion of Astronomical Bodies (Chapter 3 of your text). We talk about the early ideas of geocentric universe, and how the phenomenon of retrograde motion led to the heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus and the emerging laws of planetary motion discovered by Kepler

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