Events: detail
Mathematics, motion, and truth: the Earth goes round the Sun
- Speaker:
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Jeremy Gray
- Starts:
- November 02, 2009 at 05:30 pm
- Ends:
- November 02, 2009 at 06:30 pm
- Location:
- Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, EC1N 2HH United Kingdom
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Description
The reality of the Earth’s motion, as proclaimed by Copernicus, quickly proved contentious. Accepted by Kepler, disputed by theologians (Lutheran and Catholic alike), veiled in suggestions of mere convenience, adopted and explained by Newton as a consequence of universal gravitation, parent of the notion of force – What is involved in accepting as true that the Earth goes round the Sun? This lecture traces these debates from the early 1600s to the time of Poincaré.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
