Celestial mechanics

This is the hardbound, First Edition of 1953 of this classic work on celestial mechanics. It was designed to provide an introductory course. The first half, approximately, deals in the main with fundamental principles, astronomical and dynamical, and the second half with applications to several of the principal problems of celestial mechanics, selected because of their importance in contemporary astronomy or because of their intrinsic interest. -- Contents: The Elliptic Orbit - Expansions for an Elliptic orbit - The General Equations of Motion and their Known Integrals - Lagrange's Planetary Equations - Outline of the Solution of Lagrange's Planetary Equations - Expansion of the Disturbing Function - Canonic Equations - The Canonic Constants for the Elliptic Orbit - Contact Transformations - The Delaunay and Poincare Variables - Delaunay's Lunar Theory - Secular Inequalities - gauss' Method for the Calculation of Secular Inequalities - The Influence of a Resisting Medium and the Motion of Mercury's Perihelion - The Discovery of Neptune - De Pontecoulant's Lunar Theory - The Hill-Brown Lunar Theory - Secular Acceleration of the Moon - Precession and Nutation - Appendix: Expansions of Bessel Functions.