書目名稱 | Celestial Mechanics | 副標(biāo)題 | The Waltz of the Pla | 編輯 | Alessandra Celletti,Ettore Perozzi | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/223/222718/222718.mp4 | 概述 | Reinforces public awareness as a key issue for appreciating and exploiting the wealth of astronomical data and images gathered during the space age.Explains celestial mechanics without the use of math | 叢書名稱 | Springer Praxis Books | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | 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 dedi | 出版日期 | Book 2007 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Celestial; Celestial mechanics; Celletti; Mechanics; Natur; Perozzi; Planets; Solar System; artificial satel | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68577-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-387-30777-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-68577-9 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2007 |
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