A simple, accurate, geometrical approximation to the Keplerian motion / Y. Maeyama.
Abstract:
'The reason why such a mathematically accurate hypothesis as that presented here was not developed previously, say in the 17th century, was due mainly to the inaccurate values for the solar parallax involved in the observations of that time.' From the abstract
Historia mathematica Vol. 16 (1989), p. 353-359