Message #49679

[Bianca]

Consequently it is supposed that some sublime minds of the ancient times, with the knowledge of the equations of the epicyclic gearings that the construction of the Calculator of Antikythera implies, were able also to calculate the distance of the Earth from the Sun and accordingly the speed of the Earth and the Moon and their strength of gravity, the same results reached applying the Newton law achieving.


In such case, certainly they have also anticipated of 19 centuries the results of the law of the universal gravitation formulated by Isaac Newton in 1687 in his publication Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.