Elementary Treatise on Astronomy

Robert Woodhouse (1773- 1827) was a British mathematician. Woodhouse studied at Caius College, Cambridge and later was a professor of mathematics there. An Elementary Treatise On Astronomy Vol. II: Physical Astronomy is an account of the treatment of physical astronomy by Pierre-Simon Laplace and other continental writers. Topics include accelerating and centripetal forces, consequences that follow from the differential equations of motion, the centripetal force and the square of the distance, elliptical orbits of the planet¿s orbits, the motion of the center of gravity, elimination of dt from differential equations. ambiguities of analytical expression, differential equation for determining the radius vector and more.