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A book that can be regarded as the reference book on the mathematics of astronomy. Astronomical algorithms jean meeus snippet view 1991. Astronomical algorithms jean meeus stated in book, virtually every previous handbook on celestial calcuations was forced to rely on formaulae for sun moon and planets that were developed in the last century or before 1920. Jean meeus concise volume collects most of the algorithms and computational techniques an observer might wantcovering coordinate transformations, the apparent place of a star, the positions of. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
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