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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    02 January 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107323872
    9781108065351
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107323872
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    Dimensions:
    (254 x 178 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.63kg, 362 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy: General Interest, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy: General Interest, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, General Science
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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    The problem of the moon's orbit was one that Leonhard Euler (1707–83) returned to repeatedly throughout his life. It provided a testing ground for Newton's theory of gravitation. Could the motion of the moon be entirely accounted for by Newton's theory? Or, as Euler initially suspected, did other forces need to be invoked? For practical purposes, if the moon's orbit could be accurately predicted, its motion would provide the universal timekeeper required to solve the longitude problem. In addition to the mathematical 'three-body problem', a topic still under investigation today, Euler was faced with the statistical problem of reconciling observations rendered inconsistent by experimental error. The present work, published in Latin in 1753, is Euler's triumphant solution. It may not be the last word on a subject which has occupied mathematicians and astronomers for over three centuries, but it showed that Newton's laws were sufficient to explain lunar motion.

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