# Celestial Mechanics

- By: Jeremy Tatum
- Publisher: University of Victoria
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Astronomy__Cosmology/Celestial_Mechanics_(Tatum))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Astronomy__Cosmology/Celestial_Mechanics_(Tatum)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/phys-6783/pdf

This book presents a treatment of celestial mechanics, integrating numerical methods, geometry, and Newtonian gravitation to model and predict celestial motion. It progresses from mathematical foundations to orbital theory, ephemeris computation, perturbations, and the analysis of planetary systems and binary stars, tightly linking theory with observational astronomy.