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Matt McIrvin on Nostr: nprofile1q…ufa4k A graphic designer friend who was playing with Cassini ovals told ...

A graphic designer friend who was playing with Cassini ovals told me that Cassini thought planetary orbits had the shape of a convex Cassini oval. Why Cassini believed this, I don't know. But I suppose that for the nearly-circular ones, the difference from an ellipse is small.
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