Mercury’s Perihelion - From Le Verrier to Einstein (1982) 0198581742 - 9780198581741
This valuable text, born in origin as a doctoral thesis, has became a classical work on the historical debate of the “en
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English Pages 214 Year 1982
Table of contents :
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Le Verrier and the anomalous advance in the perihelion of Mercury
3. Newcomb and Hall’s hypothesis
4. Seeliger’s hypothesis of intra Mercurial matter
5. Some theoretical arguments for the inverse square law
6. Velocity-dependent force laws of gravitation
7. General relativity and the anomalous advance in the perihelion fo Mercury
References
Index
