Kepler's Iterative Solution to Kepler's Equation
@article{Swerdlow2000KeplersIS, title={Kepler's Iterative Solution to Kepler's Equation}, author={Noel M. Swerdlow}, journal={Journal for the History of Astronomy}, year={2000}, volume={31}, pages={339 - 341} }
The subject of this note is quite simple. In Astronomia nova 60, Kepler set out demonstrations and equations for finding the position of a planet moving in either an ellipse or a circle such that a line from the Sun to the planet describes areas proportional to time.' One of them, written as M = E + e sin E, known as 'Kepler's Equation', has a well known difficulty, which Kepler himself was the first to recognize, in that it can easily be solved in one direction, for M, but not in the other…
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