Simon Newcomb and Nineteenth-century Positional Astronomy, Volume 1 |
Contents
SOME PROBLEMS IN ASTRONOMICAL THEORY | 17 |
for Practical Astronomy | 43 |
Tables and the New Quality | 49 |
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Airy Airy's American Ephemeris analysis asteroids Bartlett Benjamin Peirce Bessel body calculations Cambridge Chapter Charles Henry Davis Coast Survey coefficients comb computed corrections Davis Delaunay developed Diary for 1858 discussed distance disturbing planet eclipse effects ephemeris equations of condition equations of motion errors expressions geocentric Gould gravitational astronomers Greenwich Hansen Hansen's method Harvard heliocentric heliocentric position improve inequalities integration investigation J. J. Leverrier John Newcomb Jupiter and Saturn Lagrange Lagrange's Laplace Laplace's Mécanique later latitude letter Letterpress copy Leverrier Leverrier's mass mathematical mean anomaly mean longitude mean motion memoir ments Mercury minor planets moon moon's motion Nautical Almanac Office Naval Observatory Navy Neptune nineteenth century observations obtain orbital elements Peirce's period perturbative function planetary theories predicted problem Professor radius vector reduced Reminiscences result secular variations Simon Newcomb Smithsonian solar system solution stars studies theoretical tions true longitude Uranus values Washington Winlock