• DOI:10.1177/002182869202300307
Corpus ID: 117859392

Hegel and the Seven Planets

@article{Craig1992HegelAT,
  title={Hegel and the Seven Planets},
  author={E. Craig and M. Hoskin},
  journal={Journal for the History of Astronomy},
  year={1992},
  volume={23},
  pages={208 - 210}
}

E. Craig, M. Hoskin

Published 1992

Philosophy

Journal for the History of Astronomy

In the Copernican system, Earth-based observers were able to derive the radii of the planetary orbits in terms of the (mean) Earth-Sun distance, from observation and elementary trigonometry. Before the end of the sixteenth century, Kepler had been struck by the disproportionate gap between the orbits of the fourth planet, Mars, and the fifth, Jupiter, and had considered the possibility of filling the gap with a planet hitherto unobserved.' Although Kepler eventually found an alternative way of… CONTINUE READING

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