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Celestial mechanics   /səlˈɛstʃəl məkˈænɪks/   Listen
Celestial mechanics

noun
1.
The branch of astronomy concerned with the application of Newton's laws of motion to the motions of heavenly bodies.





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"Celestial mechanics" Quotes from Famous Books



... fluxional antecedent, which, in the very act of formation, passes into body by its gravity, and yet in all bodies it still remains as their mass, which, being exclusively calculable under the law of gravitation, gives rise, as we before observed, to the science of statics, most improperly called celestial mechanics. ...
— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Words linked to "Celestial mechanics" :   uranology, astronomy


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