Celestial Revolutionary: Copernicus, the Man and His Universe by John Freely

Author:John Freely [Freely, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

My teacher further established that the velocity with which the center of the eccentric revolves is the same as that with which each value of the changing obliquity recurs. This discovery is indeed worthy of the highest admiration, since it is achieved with such great and remarkable agreement. The eccentricity was greatest about 60 BC, when the declination of the sun was also at its maximum. The eccentricity has decreased, moreover, in accordance with this single law, similar to no other. This and other like sports of nature often bring me great solace in the fluctuating vicissitudes of my fortunes, and gently soothe my troubled mind.

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