Celestial Mechanics

CONTENTS
Introduction
Ancient Conceptions Concerning the Motions of the Sun, Moon, Planets and Stars
The Geometry of Planetary Motions from Copernicus to Kepler
The Discovery of the Law of Gravitation
The Attraction of Material Bodies of Different Shapes
Experimental Detection of Attraction between Material Bodies on Earth
Newton's Law---The Theoretical Basis of Celestial Motion
Celestial Motion and the Two-Body Problem
The Concept of Perturbed Motion. Celestial Mechanics and Practical Astronomy
Ways of Describing Perturbed Motion. The Variational Orbit
The Problem of Motion in the Solar System
Successive Approximations in the Theory of Motion of Heavenly Bodies
The Discovery of Neptune
Periodic and Secular Perturbations
Numerical Methods in Celestial Mechanics
Satellite Theory
Artificial Earth Satellites and Their Motion
The Motions of Asteroids
Planetary Rotation
Problems of Qualitative Celestial Mechanics
Stellar Motions and the Law of Gravitation
What is Gravitation?
Appendix