Authors:
- 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 mathematics
- Authors provide an interdisciplinary cross section of all celestial mechanics
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Popular Astronomy (POPULAR)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
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 found in a book on this subject. … Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; lower- and upper-division undergraduates." (T. Barker, CHOICE, Vol. 44 (11), August, 2007)
"The celestial mechanics can be considered as the mathematical part of the astronomy, requiring a high level in mathematics and reserved to specialists … . The Waltz of the Planets offer a different insight, providing very basic mathematical tools to the reader, sufficient to enable him or her to understand the main topics of celestial planetary dynamics. The purpose is to present this discipline as accessible, interesting and amusing … . A book to recommand to students, astronomers … and celestial mechanicians." (Anne Lemaître, Physicalia Magazine, Vol. 30 (1), 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
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Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy
Alessandra Celletti
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Telespazio, Rome, Italy
Ettore Perozzi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Celestial Mechanics
Book Subtitle: The Waltz of the Planets
Authors: Alessandra Celletti, Ettore Perozzi
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68577-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-30777-0Published: 24 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-68577-9Published: 24 June 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 248
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, UK
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Popular Science, general, Applications of Mathematics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory