Keplers's Equation and Angular Momentum: Historical Perspective, Critical Analysis and Implications for Development of the Orbital Mechanics/Dynamics, Mathematics and PhysicsAfter some more than four centuries from the formulation and publication (in
Astronomia Nova) of the Kepler's Equation, which relates the eccentric (and,
intermediately, the true) anomaly of the planetary trajectories to the
uniformly flowing time, in accordance with his Second ("Area") law, the
subsequently -- in course of development of Orbital Mechanics -- to the
2${}^{nd}$ law related and formally derived non-existent (zero-valued)
transverse acceleration is refuted. Certain implications to Elliptic
Integration, Symplectic Integration, Symplectic Geometry/Topology, as well as
the connection between physical and mathematical continua in the context of the
multi-level, scale-invariant mechanics/dynamics (with the augmented central and
torquing forces) are also briefly hinted to.
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