ISBN10: 3031123212, ISBN13: 9783031123214, [publisher: Springer, Berlin|Springer International Publishing|Springer] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 3031123212, ISBN13: 9783031123214, [publisher: Springer International Publishing] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The intention of this book is to shine abrightlight on the intellectual context of Euler's contributions to physics and mathematical astronomy. Leonhard Euler is one of the most important figures in the history of science, a blind genius who introduced mathematical concepts and many analytical tools to help us understand and describe the universe. Euler also made a monumental contribution to astronomy and orbital mechanics, developing what he called astronomia mechanica. Orbital mechanics of artificial satellites and spacecraft is based on Euler's analysis of astromechanics. However,previous books have often neglectedmany of his discoveries in this field. For example, orbital mechanics texts refer to the five equilibrium points in the Sun-Earth-Moon system as Lagrange points, failing to credit Euler who first derived the differential equations for the general n-body problem and who discovered the three collinear points in the three-body problem of celestial mechanics. These equilibrium points are essential today in space exploration; the James Webb Space Telescope (successor to the Hubble), for example, noworbits the Sun near L2, one of the collinear points of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, while future missions to study the universe will place observatories in orbit around Sun-Earth and Earth-Moon equilibrium p ...
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ISBN10: 3031123212, ISBN13: 9783031123214, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. 1.18
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