Week Eight - Orbits


Galileo made a telescope and saw the moons orbiting Jupiter and physics started. Then came Huygens and Kepler, Newton and Leibniz tried to cheat each other, Newton shafted Halley and mechanics was born.

    Music: 

  • Franz Schubert, “The Trout, Death and the Maiden”
  • Leonard Cohen, “The Future”
 
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