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This textbook treats celestial mechanics as well as stellar dynamics from the common point of view of orbit theory making use of concepts and techniques from modern geometric mechanics. It starts with elementary Newtonian mechanics and ends with the dynam
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ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS LIBRARY I. Appenzeller, Heidelberg, Germany G. Borner, Garching, Germany A. Burkert, Miinchen, Germany M. A. Dopita, Canberra, Australia T. Encrenaz, Meudon, France M. Harwit, Washington, DC, USA R. Kippenhahn, Gottingen, Germany 1. Lequeux, Paris, France A. Maeder, Sauverny, Switzerland V. Trimble, College Park, MD, and Irvine, CA, USA
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D. Boccaletti G. Pucacco
Theory of Orbits Volume 1: Integrable Systems and Non-perturbative Methods
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Dino Boccaletti Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2, 00185 Roma, Italy e-mail: [email protected]
Giuseppe Pucacco Universita degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" Dipartimento di Fisica Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1,00133 Roma, Italy e-mail: [email protected]
Cover picture: A wide-field view of the Carina region in the Southern Sky, kindly supplied by ESO (European Southern Observatory), with an insert from a miniature of the XII century God architect of the cosmos, miniature from "Bible moralisee", Cod. 2554 f. Iv (Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna)
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Corrected Third Printing 2004 ISSN 0941-7834 ISBN 978-3-642-08210-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-03319-7
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996 Originally published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York in 1996 Softcover reprint of the hardcover I st edition 1996 The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Data conversion Frank Herweg, Cover design: design & production GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper
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Preface to the Corrected Third Printing
As a third edition of this book has been called for, we ha
