Exposé de la méthode de Hansen pour le calcul des perturbations spéciales des petites planètes.
[Paris], [Baillière], [1874].
8vo (250x164 mm), 230-(1) pages. binding : Modern quarter chagreen, spine in five compartments.
First edition. Article published in the Memoirs of the Physical and Natural Sciences Society of Bordeaux.TX on this fundamental problem of celestial mechanics which preoccupied mathematicians and astronomers at the end of the 19th century. Discussion on Hansen's method which is a perturbation theory approach to the three-body problem.