Episode #76 - History of Physics | Pythagoras & Euler
Math & Physics Podcast
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The Heliocentric Model of the Solar System by Ray Kepler
Pythagoras was one of the main characters that proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, very ahead of his time. If you nest these platonic solids, one inside of the other, you can actually find the ratios of the planets orbits relative to each other. So it's so cool to see how well they can influence each other, you know, using little bit of the tools the foundations laid out then. I mean, heck, we used newtonian mechanics, i mean, a calculus now, and we probably will be for the foreseeable future.
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