Re: On lunar distances
Subject: Re: On lunar distances
From: Dov Kruger (dkruger@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 09:49:48 EST
Peter Fogg wrote:
>Sir Isaac Newton was a ...
>But he complained that thinking about the motion of the moon always gave
>him a headache.
>
It is said that the great triumph of 19th century science (really begun
by Newton) was showing that the world was governed by linear equations,
and the great triumph of 20th century science was proving that it wasn't
;-) It's no wonder that Newton didn't like the problem of lunar
distances, as there is no neat analytic linear equation that you can
solve to get the answer....
I second the thanks to George Huxtable and also thanks to Dan Allen who
sacrificed his spine (now doesn't that sound altruistic?) so that we
could all have the Bowditch lunars section online.
