Condemnation RedemptionChapter 3 Ao t 1688 Versailles
It was a beautiful late summer’s day six months later that I found myself in Aurora’s (for that was l’Comtesse’s given name) bedchamber. I had long since read Newton’s brilliant ‘Principe’ and was still digesting his equations that among other things explained so much that had mystified astronomers since Ptolemy. In short, he proved that the planets orbited the Sun, which had long been understood, but not in the circular motion that had always been assumed, rather in ellipses. That explained...