Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun

Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun is a book based on a lecture by Richard Feynman. Restoration of the lecture notes and conversion into book form was undertaken by Caltech physicist David L. Goodstein and archivist Judith R. Goodstein. Feynman had given the lecture on the motion of bodies at Caltech in 1963, but the notes and pictures were lost for a number of years and consequently not included in The Feynman Lectures on Physics series. The lecture notes were later found, but unfortunately without the photographs of his illustrative chalkboard drawings. One of the editors, David L. Goodstein, while assembling the notes found that he could not completely understand Feynman's derivations and so rewrote the book, following Feynman closely, but not exactly.

Editions

• Hardcover with audio CD of lecture (1996): ISBN 0393039188
• Paperback edition (1997): ISBN 0099736217
• Paperback with audio CD of lecture (2000): ISBN 0393319954

See also

• Isaac Newton's work: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• Johannes Kepler on planetary motion