Calculate the Orbit of Mars!

Jane Clark has a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours Physics from the University of London, a PhD in physics from University of Warwick, and an MBA from the University of Warwick. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Case Western Reserve University, and she has over 30 years of experience in industrial research and development.Previously published books include Measure Solar System Objects and their Movements for Yourself! (Springer 2009) and Viewing and Imaging the Solar System: A Guide for Amateur Astronomers (Springer 2014), both in Springer's Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Other works include "An Experience to Remember," a short comedy play about astronomers shown at the Alma Theatre, Bristol in June 2016.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2. From Eve to Newton: Doubtful Legends about Knowledge from an Apple.- Chapter 3: Weighing the earth with a pendulum.- Chapter 4: Solving an Equation without Moving your Ellipse.- Chapter 5: Where’d the Earth Go?.- Chapter 6: You Don’t Take a Photograph: You Make It.- Chapter 7: Do you see what I see?  A Planet, a Planet, Dancing in the Night.- Chapter 8: Without Data, You’re Just another Person with an Opinion.- Chapter 9: Finally we get around to the Answer.

“It is a book that can be followed by anyone who has taken A-level mathematics, albeit fully understood only if they have read the subject for at least a year at university. … This is a unique text, and represents a rare piece of individual research and writing that has much to commend it. … If you enjoy a mathematical challenge it will be well worth your while to obtain … .” (Richard McKim, The Observatory, Vol. 142 (1291), December, 2022)