A note on "Kepler's equation".
Abstract
This note briefly points out the formal similarity between Kepler's equation and equations developed in Hindu and Islamic astronomy for describing the lunar parallax. Specifically, an iterative method for calculating the lunar parallax has been developed by the astronomer Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (about 850 A.D., Turkestan), which is surprisingly similar to the iterative method for solving Kepler's equation invented by Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783).
- Publication:
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Archive for History of Exact Sciences
- Pub Date:
- July 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997AHES...51...59D
- Keywords:
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- History of Astronomy: Planetary Orbits