📚 2 Books mentioned in "StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – Summer School with Neil deGrasse Tyson" of StarTalk Radio
Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – Summer School with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Published on August 22, 2019
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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
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And Isaac Newton first demonstrated this-- - [Charles] In Principia.
Charles Liu mentions Newton's 'Principia' as where the concept of orbital motion (Earth falling towards the Sun but not hitting it) was first demonstrated.
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
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In one of my books I have a chapter called On Earth as in the Heavens. It's all about the effort to discover laws of physics on Earth, and the question about whether they apply in places other than Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson refers to a chapter in one of his own books to illustrate a point about the laws of physics.