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THE outstanding literature of a comprehensive and practical nature on the subject of the determination of orbits of celestial bodies is contained in five books—Gauss's “Theoria Motus ” (1809), translated from Latin into English by Admiral Davis in 1857, Watson's “Theoretical Astronomy”(1868), Oppolzer's celebrated “Lehrbuch ” in two volumes (1870 and 1880), Klinkerfues's “Theoretische Astronomie” (1871), and finally, the first edition, in 1906, of the volume now before us. All of these were out-of-print, but it is gratifying to note that the most recent has reached a second edition.
Die Bahnbestimmung der Himmelskörper.
Julius. Zweite Auflage. Pp. xv + 671. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1928.) 59 gold marks.
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COMRIE, L. Die Bahnbestimmung der Himmelskörper . Nature 122, 51 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122051a0
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