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Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets
Celletti, Alessandra; Perozzi, Ettore
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Description for Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets
paperback. The aim of this book is to demonstrate to a wider audience, as well as to a more skilled audience, the many fascinating aspects of modern celestial mechanics. It sets out to do this without the use of mathematics. Series: Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 570.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387307770
SKU
V9780387307770
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Reviews for Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets
From the reviews: "Celletti (Universita di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’) and Perozzi (Telespazio Rome) present a complicated subject in an engaging manner that is accessible to general readers. The writing is clear and authoritative, and the diagrams and tables help the nonexpert reader to visualize the key ideas without having to wade through the mathematics usually ... Read more