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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Celestial Mechanics
    sub title: The Waltz of the Planets
  name:
    name part: Celletti, Alessandra.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Perozzi, Ettore.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 248 p. 20 illus. online resource.
  abstract: I was delighted to be invited by my colleagues Alessandra Celletti and Ettore Perozzi to provide a foreword to their book, Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets. Having known them for many years and long admired their work in the subject so many of us love and are fascinated by, 1 read with great attention and pleasure the text when it arrived. It is a formidable task they have set themselves, to provide a book that describes attempts by successive generations of astronomers from the dawn of history five millennia ago to observe, record and understand the phenomena of the heavens, particularly the intricate and perplexing behaviour of the planets. Sun and Moon. As naked eye astronomy became aided by the telescope and the photographic plate, and since the middle of the twentieth century, by instruments launched on spacecraft into circum- Earth orbit or to the Moon and planets and beyond, the discovery of new satellites, scores of them, and ring systems displaying new and initially perplexing behaviour also demanded explanations for that behaviour. It is also the inspiring story of science itself with special reference to how lonely individuals, impelled by curiosity and dedicated to seeking the truth, and nothing but the truth, about the fascinating phenomena of nature, ultimately became accepted as scientists, those players in the most successful endeavour ever engaged in by the human race.
  table of contents: Around and around -- Three bodies and no solution -- Celestial waltz -- Cosmic spinning tops -- Our chaotic Solar System -- Singularities, collisions and threatening bodies -- Of Moon and man -- Rock around the planets -- Lords of the rings -- At the edge of the Solar System -- On the road to exolife.
  note: by Alessandra Celletti, Ettore Perozzi.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9780387685779
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68577-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204190159.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-68577-9