TY  - BOOK
AU  - Euler,Leonhard
TI  - Theoria motus lunae exhibens omnes eius inaequalitates: In additamento hoc idem argumentum aliter tractatur simulque ostenditur quemadmodum motus lunae cum omnibus inaequalitatibus innumeris aliis modis repraesentari atque ad calculum revocari possit 
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Astronomy
SN  - 9781107323872 (ebook)
AV  - QB391 .E85 1753
U1  - 521 23
PY  - 1753///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
KW  - Lunar theory
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Celestial mechanics
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107323872
ER  -