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A marvellous connection: Longomontanus’ battle with the latitudes of Mars
Fecha
2020-11Registro en:
Recio, Gonzalo Luis; A marvellous connection: Longomontanus’ battle with the latitudes of Mars; Sage Publications Ltd; Journal for the History of Astronomy; 51; 4; 11-2020; 383-400
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Autor
Recio, Gonzalo Luis
Resumen
This paper deals with Longomontanus’ theory of latitudes of Mars, as it is extant in his Astronomia Danica. I will show how the solution that Longomontanus devised to solve the longitude problems presented by Tycho’s non-bisected model allowed him to achieve very good latitude predictions, without correcting the basic underlying values that were at the root of Tycho’s difficulties regarding latitudes.