One of five classic volumes of the works by the Marquis de Laplace on celestial mechanics.

" ... The half-tone [plate] is ... interesting historically because this same plate was in the 1873 issue of the book.

Isaac Newton's The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy translated by Andrew Motte and published in two volumes in 1729 remains the first and only translation of Newton's Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica, which was first ...

The first american edition of the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville's work.

First, a state of motion of three finite bodies, m1, m2, m3 is idealized by an approximation to the law of mechanics such that m2 and m3 revolve around each other in circular orbits and that their center of mass revolves around m1 also in a ...

The Lindstedt perturbation method is applied to the motion of an artificial Earth satellite that moves along a geodesic of the Schwarzschild metric of general relativity.

Mathematical developments of the gravitational effects of the sun and moon on a close satellite were made.

One of five classic volumes of the works by the Marquis de Laplace on celestial mechanics.