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CELESTIAL MECHANICS, by the Marquis de Laplace
- Introduction to this edition
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Nathaniel Bowditch's introduction to the 1829 translation
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Table of trigonometric identities
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Laplace's preface to the French version
- FIRST BOOK: On the General Laws of Equilibrium and Motion.
- SECOND BOOK: On the Law of Universal Gravitation, and the
Motions of the Centres of Gravity of the Heavenly Bodies.
- THIRD BOOK: On the Figures of the Heavenly Bodies.
- FOURTH BOOK: On the Oscillations of the Sea and Atmosphere.
- FIFTH BOOK: On the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies about
their own Centres of Gravity.
- SIXTH BOOK: Theory of the Planetary Motions.
- SEVENTH BOOK: Theory of the Moon.
- EIGHTH BOOK: Theory of the Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, and
Uranus.
- NINTH BOOK: Theory of Comets.
- TENTH BOOK: On Several Subjects Relative to the System of the
World.
- APPENDICES.