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Can We Define an Inertial Reference System?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Li Linghuai  and
Tong Fu
Li Linghuai
Affiliation:
Purple Mountain Observatory Academia Sinica Nanjing, China
Tong Fu
Affiliation:
Purple Mountain Observatory Academia Sinica Nanjing, China

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The topic (Seidelmann, 1986) is one of the unresolved questions in the field of celestial mechanics because the definitions of an inertial system are all controversial (Mach, 1893; Eichhorn, 1984). Eichhorn's definition enlarges its connotation and is not acceptable either. Connotation of a concept is endowed through defining it. One of the reasons why the existing definitions of an inertial system are all controversial is that the connotations that are endowed by them are not unique, in other words, they do not draw up the same area of ideas. Taking the interplay of all of them for its connotation is an acceptable solution.

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Type
Part 3: Concepts, Definitions, Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 141: Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky , 1990 , pp. 141
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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