The Solar System

Johan Hoffman (), Claes Johnson () and Anders Logg ()
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Johan Hoffman: New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Claes Johnson: Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computational Mathematics
Anders Logg: Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computational Mathematics

Chapter 16 in Dreams of Calculus, 2004, pp 89-99 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There is talk of a new astrologer who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody were moving in a carriage or ship might hold that he was sitting still and at rest while the earth and the trees walked and moved. But that is how things are nowadays: when a man wishes to be clever he must needs invent something special, and the way he does it must needs be the best! The fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside-down. However, as Holy Scripture tells us, so did Joshua bid the sun to stand still and not the earth. (Sixteenth century reformist M. Luther in his table book Tischreden, in response to Copernicus’ pamphlet Commentariolus, 1514.)

Keywords: Solar System; Discontinuous Galerkin Method; Piecewise Polynomial Approximation; Extra Digit; Continuous Galerkin Method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18586-1_16

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