THE THREE BODY PROBLEM

LAMBERT, JOHANN HEINRICH.

Solution générale et absolue du problème de Trois Corps, moyennant des suite infinies.

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", tome XXIII. Pp. 353-364.

First edition. In this paper Lambert shows that one can solve the classic three body problem by the use of infinite series. This allows numerical approximations, but Lambert notes that nearly nothing in the problem (excepts for the classic easier cases) allows for shortcuts in these calcualtions. More even, approximations of neighboured streches of the orbit to be calculated may even require different approximatuion series, so as to renderr even tables more or less or at least rather ineffective.

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