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    2132

    Orbits (comets and moons)

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    2.1.3.2. Orbits (comets and moons) © 2003-2026 hegel.net · Kai Froeb 2.1.3.2. Orbits (comets and moons) 2.1.3.2.1. Orbits of Comets 2.1.3.2.2. Orbits of Moons One level back to Celestial mechanics (infinite motion, astronomy) One level further to Orbits of Comets One level further to Orbits of Moons
    2.1.3.2. Orbits (comets and moons) © 2003-2026 hegel.net · Kai Froeb 2.1.3.2. Orbits (comets and moons) One level back to Celestial mechanics (infinite motion, astronomy) One level further to Orbits of Comets One level further to Orbits of Moons 2.1.3.2.1. Orbits of Comets One level back to Orbits of Comets 2.1.3.2.2. Orbits of Moons One level back to Orbits of Moons
    • 0 Hegel's 'System of Science'
    • 1 Logic (Thinking of Thinking, Science of Science)
    • 2 Nature (science of matter)
    • 3 Spirit/Mind (Science of humanities)
    • 21 Mechanics
    • 22 Physics (including Chemistry)
    • 23 Organism / Life (Subjectivity)
    • 211 Abstract extension/extrinsicality (immaterial nature)
    • 212 Finite mechanics (matter and motion)
    • 213 Celestial mechanics (infinite motion, astronomy)
    • 2131 Self rotation (solar rotation)
    • 2132 Orbits (comets and moons)
    • 2133 Orbits of Planets
    • 21321 Orbits of Comets
    • 21322 Orbits of Moons

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    • HTM The Philosophy of Nature (Book 2 of the Encyclopedia) 1817

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    • Enzyklopädie II, § 269🇩🇪 DE

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    • What the Philosophy of Nature Adds

    Circlings

    To the glossary index · ↑ Top of page

    Movement around a center foreign to the moving body --- as with comets and moons. Both are one-sided: the comet has no fixed orbit, the moon has no center of its own.

    In Hegel: 2132

    Cross-references: Part One, III

    Commentary on the Philosophy of Nature: I. What It Undertakes

    To the glossary index · ↑ Top of page

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