Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville; Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Translated by Mary Somerville
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: August 2010
Print publication year:: 2009
First published in:: 1831
Online ISBN:: 9780511693137
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693137

Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
Subjects:: History, Engineering: General Interest, History of Ideas and Intellectual History

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Published in 1831, this work forms part of a collection of introductory volumes suggested by Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, the Lord Chancellor, for the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Due to the exceptional mathematical ability of its author, however, it outgrew its original plan and has since been seen as a rather more ambitious project. Praised by Somerville's contemporary Sir John Herschel for its presentation of general astronomical theories and the mechanical principles employed in their derivation, the work was a tour de force of scientific and technical exposition. It is especially remarkable both for its author's firm grasp of the subject, especially given her lack of formal mathematical training, and for its clear outline of Newtonian philosophy for a popular audience.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION
pp v-xlvi

PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY
pp 1-3

BOOK I

CHAPTER I - DEFINITIONS, AXIOMS, &c
pp 4-18

CHAPTER II - VARIABLE MOTION
pp 19-53

CHAPTER III - ON THE EQUILIBRIUM OF A SYSTEM OF BODIES
pp 54-68

CHAPTER IV - MOTION OF A SYSTEM OF BODIES
pp 69-81

CHAPTER V - THE MOTION OF A SOLID BODY OF ANY FORM WHATEVER
pp 82-109

CHAPTER VI - ON THE EQUILIBRIUM OF FLUIDS
pp 110-116

CHAPTER VII - MOTION OF FLUIDS
pp 117-144

BOOK II

CHAPTER I - PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY
pp 145-151

CHAPTER II - ON THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION, DEDUCED FROM OBSERVATION
pp 152-169

CHAPTER III - ON THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF THE MOTION OF A SYSTEM OF BODIES, SUBJECTED TO THEIR MUTUAL ATTRACTIONS
pp 170-181

CHAPTER IV - ON THE ELLIPTICAL MOTION OF THE PLANETS
pp 182-212

CHAPTER V - THEORY OF THE PERTURBATIONS OF THE PLANETS
pp 213-250

CHAPTER VI - SECULAR INEQUALITIES IN THE ELEMENTS OF THE ORBITS
pp 251-290

CHAPTER VII - PERIODIC VARIATIONS IN THE ELEMENTS OF THE PLANETARY ORBITS
pp 291-294

CHAPTER VIII - PERTURBATIONS OF THE PLANETS IN LONGITUDE, LATITUDE, AND DISTANCE
pp 295-303

CHAPTER IX - SECOND METHOD OF FINDING THE PERTURBATIONS OF A PLANET IN LONGITUDE, LATITUDE, AND DISTANCE
pp 304-323

CHAPTER X - THE THEORY OF JUPITER AND SATURN
pp 324-342

CHAPTER XI - INEQUALITIES OCCASIONED BY THE ELLIPTICITY OF THE SUN
pp 343-345

CHAPTER XII - PERTURBATIONS IN THE MOTIONS OF THE PLANETS OCCASIONED BY THE ACTION OF THEIR SATELLITES
pp 346-348

CHAPTER XIII - DATA FOR COMPUTING THE CELESTIAL MOTIONS
pp 349-363

CHAPTER XIV - NUMERICAL VALUES OF THE PERTURBATIONS OF JUPITER
pp 364-410

BOOK III

CHAPTER I - LUNAR THEORY
pp 411-451

CHAPTER II - NUMERICAL VALUES OF THE COEFFICIENTS
pp 452-473

CHAPTER III - INEQUALITIES FROM THE FORM OF THE EARTH
pp 474-479

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