And Yet It Stands: The Stability of the Solar System in Eighteenth-Century Physical Astronomy
The proof of the stability of the solar system has been customarily presented as the solution of a great riddle originated by Newton and completed by Laplace. In this paper, I suggest a different narrative. I argue that Newton considered the stability of the solar system more a theological problem t...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Historical studies in the natural sciences 2018-04, Vol.48 (2), p.123-179 |
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