Celestial Mechanics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1936. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, History Of Astronomy

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CELESTIAL MECHANICS (so named by Laplace in 1798) before the twentieth century consisted in the application to the solar system of Isaac NEWTON's law of universal gravitation. By this law, a single body orbiting about a larger body moves in a conic section; the presence of a third body perturbs the motion. Celestial mechanics is concerned with the perturbations thus produced....

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