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Kepler's New Astronomy [video]

by zyklu5 on 8/19/24, 7:26 PM with 3 comments

• by zyklu5 on 8/19/24, 7:26 PM

  This is the first part of a two part series on Kepler's work. It's a wonderful work of pedagogy striking the pretty difficult balance between mathematical detail and pop science story telling.

  The videos go into a surprising amount of detail; the second part has a lot of the key details of Kepler's New Astronomy -- something I haven't even found in standard textbook treatments (including the first part of the great Celestial Mechanics monograph by Shlomo Sternberg).

  In the fact, this person's channel is truly a gem and very underrated. I find a lot of his videos match or even surpass other such channels like 3b1b or vertasium.