Brown, Ernest William (1866-1938)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3502. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Celestial mechanician, born in England, taught mathematics at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and at Yale University. Devoted his life to calculations of the Moon's motion. His theory, which was a set of equations with an astounding 1500 terms, took account of `the gravitational action of every particle of matter that can have a sensible effect on the Moon's motion'. He computed the constants o...

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