Timeline for What force caused the Earth to have a tangential velocity to its circular motion around the Sun?
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| Jul 10, 2017 at 22:24 | vote | accept | Pancake_Senpai | ||
| Jul 10, 2017 at 16:25 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 14:17 | comment | added | Philip Wood | I'll leave those better qualified than me to give a modern answer, but I'll just remark that Newton ascribed it to God, who (he assumed) set up the solar system in the first place. Indeed the existence of the solar system with most planetary orbits not far from circular was used for a long time in the West as an argument for God's existence. This is now derided as a "God of the gaps" argument, reducing God to a mere doer of things which we can't explain otherwise. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | Hritik Narayan | Related: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/12140/… | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 13:58 | history | asked | Pancake_Senpai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |