Abstract
P M Fitzpatrick London: Academic Press 1970 pp xvii + 405 price £5.95 This book, apart from the final chapter, is concerned with the positions and motions of celestial bodies, described by the use of the concept of the osculating ellipse, and perturbations of that ellipse. It differs from other textbooks of celestial mechanics, first in that the classical mechanics of particles and systems of particles is developed in some detail from first principles, and also in that the methods are developed quite specifically with artificial satellite motions in mind, with deliberate omission of many topics, important in the study of planetary motions, such as the determination of orbits from observed positions, the expansion of the planetary disturbing function, and the secular variations of planetary orbits.
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