Excerpt from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, From Their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800, Vol. 6: Abridged, With Notes and Biographic Illustrations; From 1713 to 1723Kepler himself, who first proposed the problem, had no direct method of computing the planets places, from the time being given: but he was obliged to proceed through the several degrees of the semicircle aob, from the given are ao, called the excentric anomaly, and both to calculate the time by the area asg, which is proportional to the mean anomaly, and the angle asp, that is the planet's place, or the coequate anomaly corresponding to this time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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