Abstract
THE appearance of Prof. Moulton's introductory treatise on dynamical astronomy in a second edition is a sufficient proof that the work, which was first published twelve years ago, has satisfied a certain demand. This is very natural, for there is no similar book which covers the same ground. After the revision which it has now undergone it should prove even more useful than in its original form. The author's aim has been to give the student that general view of the whole subject, so far as it can be treated by fairly elementary methods, from which Tie may pass on, if he pleases to go further, to the technical details which are to be found in treatises on “Bahnbestimmung,” or to the refined mathematical processes which are developed in theoretical works on celestial mechanics, or in the original memoirs of the great masters.
An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics.
Second revised edition. By Prof. F. R. Moulton. Pp. xvi + 437. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 15s. net.
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P., H. An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics . Nature 94, 143–144 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094143a0
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