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Ephemerides and Celestial Mechanics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
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When solving some abstract problems in mechanics related to the dynamics of bodies and systems, the notion of an inertial frame of reference is introduced in an apparently clear and natural way by simply drawing its coordinate axes and then paying no further attention to the system of reference which is then taken for granted. If we turn, however, towards investigations of the real stellar and planetary world, or as Sir James Jeans put it, “… to the Universe around us,” we immediately face the question of how to practically construct a useful and obvious model of the inertial frame of reference sufficiently close to reality.
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