The computation of an orbit from three complete observations.
Subtitle: From the "Theoria motus corporum cœlestium" of Charles Frederick Gauss. With an appendix containing Prof. Encke's conclusions in his discussion of the values of Z, his table for determining the existence of the double orbit, and Professor Peirce's graphic delineations of the curves, showing geometrically the roots of the Gaussian equation <IV.>, and the point of osculation in the doubtful case.
By: Tr. and collected from the originals, and printed under the authority of the Hon. William A. Graham ... for the use of the Nautical almanac. By Charles Henry Davis ...
Contributors: Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877, ed.
Publisher: Metcalf and company
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Cambridge, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Orbits.