Sentences with phrase «about planetary motion»

If, Polanyi insists, Copernicus had followed the procedures of «critical philosophy» and reasoned from his experience of the world, he would not have reached his conclusions about planetary motion.

Not exact matches

Cutting a hole in the pool table won't win favour at your local bar, but it can teach us more about chaotic systems such as the climate or planetary motion

Watching from his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, Isaac Newton began thinking about the apple's descent: a line of thought that, two decades later, ended with his conclusion that there must be some sort of universal force governing the motion of apples and cannonballs and even planetary bodies.

Researchers used software to simulate the planetary motions within a two - planet system: one being a Jupiter - sized planet (depicted in the artist's concept above) orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Earth orbits the sun, and the other a large planet in a highly tilted orbit that was slightly larger.

«It's an astonishing result because this long cycle, which had been predicted from planetary motions through about 50 million years ago, has been confirmed through at least 215 million years ago.