Celestial Mechanics see also Mechanics, Space Flight Baker, Robert M.L. Jr. and Makemson, Maud M. An Introduction to Astrodynamics. New York: Academic Press, 1960. 358 p. Bate, Roger R.; Mueller, Donald D.; and White, Jerry E. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics. New York: Dover, 1971. 455 p. $8.95. Béletski, V. Essais sur le mouvement des corps cosmiques. Moscow: Mir, 1986. 368 p. Not a classical treatise, but twelve humorous essays on difficult questions. Boccaletti, D. and Pucacco, G. Theory of Orbits. Vol. 1: Integrable Systems and Non-Perturbative Methods. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. 432 p. $69. Boccaletti, D. and Pucacco, G. Theory of Orbits, Vol. 2: Perturbative and Geometrical Methods. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1998. 423 p. Bond, Victor R. and Allman, Mark C. Modern Astrodynamics: Fundamentals and Perturbation Models. 264 p. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. $39.50. Brouwer, Dirk and Clemence, Gerald Maurice. Methods of Celestial Mechanics. New York: Academic Press, 1961. 598 p. Out of print. Brown, Ernest William. An Introductory Treatise on the Lunar Theory. New York: Dover, 1960. Brown, Ernest William and Shook, Clarence Albert. Planetary Theory. London: Cambridge University Press, 1933. Out of print. Brumberg, Victor A. Analytical Techniques of Celestial Mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995. 236 p. $79. Brumberg, Victor A. Essential Relativistic Celestial Mechanics. IOP Publ., 1991. $140. Bruno, Alexander D. The Restricted 3-Body Problem: Plane Periodic Orbits. Hawthorne, NY: de Gruyter, 1994. 362 p. $138.95. Celnikier, Ludwik M. Basics of Space Flight. Gif-sur-Yvette: Editions Frontières, 1993. 356 p. Chebotarev, G.A. Analytical and Numerical Methods of Celestial Mechanics. New York: American Elsevier, 1967. 331 p. Colwell, Peter. Solving Kepler's Equation Over Three Centuries. $24.95. Cook, Alan. The Motion of the Moon. Bristol, England: Adam Hilger, 1988. 222 p. $130. d'Oppolzer, Théodore. Traité de la détermination des orbites des comètes et des planètes, tome 1. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886. 491 p . Danby, J.M. Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics, 2nd ed., rev. enl. Richmond, VA: Willmann-Bell, 1988. 466 p. Excellent classic textbook. The best place to start learning about celestial mechanics. Many explicit definitions and clear exposition. $?. Danjon, André. Astronomie générale, Astronomie sphérique et Eléments de Mécanique Céleste, 2éme édition revue et corrigée. Paris, Albert Blanchard, 1980. 454 p. Delaunay, Charles. Théorie du Mouvement de la lune, tome I. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1860. 883 p. Delaunay, Charles. Théorie du Mouvement de la lune, tome II. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1869. 931 p. A third volume in preparation was never completed due to the sudden death of the author in 1872. The ``error de Delaunay'', often quoted in the 80's, can be found on p. 2 of vol. II, where the coefficient 33/16 is changed to 23/16 on p. 234. However, the mistake was only one of transcription, c.f. Pavelle, Rothstein and Fitch, in Scientific American, Feb. 1982. Diacu, Florin and Homes, Philip. Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. $24.95. Gauss, Karl Friedrich. Davis, Charles Henry (trans.). Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in Sectionibus Concis Solem Ambientium [Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Moving about the Sun in Conic Sections]. New York: Dover, 1963. Out of print. Goodstein, David L. and Goodstein, Judith R. Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 224 p. $35. Grossman, N. The Sheer Joy of Celestial Mechanics. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 1996. 159 p. $34.50. Gurzadyan, G.A. Theory of Interplanetary Flights. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Gordon and Breach, 1996. 383 p. $212.95. Hagihara, Yusuke. Celestial Mechanics, Vol. 1: Dynamical Principles and Transformation Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970. 689 p. Hagihara, Yusuke. Celestial Mechanics, Vol. 2: Perturbation Theory, Pt. 1 Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972. Hagihara, Yusuke. Celestial Mechanics, Vol. 2: Perturbation Theory, Pt. 2 Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972. Hegel, G.W.F. Les orbites des planétes. Dissertation de 1801. Paris: Vrin, 1979. 203 p. King-Hele, D.G. A Tapestry of Orbits. 1992. $74.95. Kovalevsky, J. Introduction à la mécanique céleste. Paris, Armand Colin, 1963. 217 p. Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de. Bowditch, Nathaniel (trans.). Celestial Mechanics, 4 vols. Bronx, NY: Chelsea, 1966. $250. Laplace, Pierre Simon. The System of the World, 2 vols. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1809. Translation of Exposition du systeme du monde. Out of Print. Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de. Traité de mécanique céleste, 5 vols. Brussells: Culture et Civilisations, 1967. Lecar, Myron. Gravitational N-Body Problem. Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 10 Held in Cambridge, England, Aug. 12-15, 1970. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1972. $?. McCuskey, Sidney Wilcox. Introduction to Celestial Mechanics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1963. Moulton, Forrest Ray. An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, 2nd rev. ed. New York: Dover, 1970. 436 p. A classic. $10.95. Murray, Carl D. and Dermott, Stanley F. Solar System Dynamics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 606 p. Looks like a modern classic. The book has a website at http://ssdbook.maths.qmw.ac.uk/. $39.95. Painleve, Paul. Les axiomes de la Mécanique, 2e èd. Suivi de Note sur la propagation de la lumiére. 1922. 72 p. Reprint Gabay, 1995, http://www.gabay.com/. ISBN: 2876471647. $14.32. Peterson, Ivars. Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1993. $15.95. Plummer, Henry. An Introductory Treatise of Dynamical Astronomy. New York: Dover, 1960. 343 p. An all-time classic, full of essential information on classical celestial mechanic. Sadly out of print. Poincaré, Henri. New Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Trans. of Methodes nouvelles de la mecanique celeste. AIP, 1992. 1272 p. $150. Pollard, H. Mathematical Introduction to Celestial Mechanics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1966. Prussing, John E. and Conway, Bruce A. Orbital Mechanics. Oxford, 1993. 176 p. $45. Rimrott, F.P.J. Introduction Orbit Dynamics. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1989. Roche, Edouard. Sa vie et ses travaux. Montpellier, France: Boehm et fils, 1883. ca. 670 p. Collection of papers from ``Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier,'' section des Sciences, tome I to XI, 1848 to 1882. Rosser, J, Barkley (Ed.). Space Mathematics, Part 1. Providence, RI: Amer. Math. Soc., 1966. 296 p. Roy, A.E. Orbital Motion, 3rd ed. Bristol, England: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1994. 532 p. $?. Ryabov, Y. An Elementary Survey of Celestial Mechanics. Siegel, Carl Ludwig and Moser, Jürgen K. Lectures on Celestial Mechanics, 2nd ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995. 304 p. $35. Smart, William. Celestial Mechanics. London: Longmans, Green, 1953. Soop, E.M. Handbook of Geostationary Orbits. Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 1994. 309 p. $94. Stiefel, E.L. and Scheifele, G. Linear and Regular Celestial Mechanics: Perturbed Two-Body Motion, Numerical Methods, Canonical Theory. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1971. 301 p. $?. Szebehely, Victor G. and Mark, Has Adventures in Celestial Mechanics, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1998. 320 p. $64.95. Szebehely, Victor G. Applications of Modern Dynamics to Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics. New York: New York: Academic Press, 1964. 744 p. $129.50. Szebehely, Victor G. Theory of Orbits: The Restricted Problem of Three Bodies. New York: Academic Press, 1967. Out of print. $?. Taff, Laurence G. Celestial Mechanics: A Computational Guide for the Practitioner. New York: Wiley, 1985. 520 p. $175. Teles, Jerome. Spaceflight Dynamics. 1993. $240. Thiry, Yves. Les Fondements de la mécanique céleste. Paris: Gordon and Breach, 1970. 202 p. Thomson, William Tyrrell. Introduction to Space Dynamics. New York: Dover, 1986. 352 p. $9.95. Tisserand, François Felix. Traité de mecanique celeste, 4 vols. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1889-96. Reprinted by Jacques Gabay, Paris 1990. http://www.gabay.com/. ISBN: 2876470292. $275. van de Kamp, Peter. Elements of Astromechanics. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman, 1964. 140 p. Good section on geocentric longitude, but not much else. von Oppolzer, Theodor Ritter. Traité de la... 1886. Watson, James Craig. Theoretical Astronomy: Relating to the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies. New York: Dover, 1964. 662 p. Williams, Kenneth P. The Calculation of the Orbits of Asteroids and Comets. Bloomington, IN: Principia Press, 1934. 214 p. Wintner, Aurel. The Analytical Foundations of Celestial Mechanics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941. Zarrouati, Olivier. Trajectoires Spatiales. Toulouse: CNES, CEPADUES-Editions, 1987. 522 p. $?.