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Many-body problem. --- Spaces of constant curvature. --- Celestial mechanics.

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When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to harness the same principle for low-fuel space travel--or, as he puts it, "surfing the gravitational field." Belbruno devised one of the most exciting concepts now being used in space flight, that of swinging through the cosmos on the subtle fluctuations of the planets' gravitational pulls. His idea was met with skepticism until 1991, when he used it to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the Moon. The successful rescue represented the first application of chaos to space travel and ushered in an emerging new field. Part memoir, part scientific adventure story, Fly Me to the Moon gives a gripping insider's account of that mission and of Belbruno's personal struggles with the science establishment. Along the way, Belbruno introduces readers to recent breathtaking advances in American space exploration. He discusses ways to capture and redirect asteroids; presents new research on the origin of the Moon; weighs in on discoveries like 2003 UB313 (now named Eris), a dwarf planet detected in the far outer reaches of our solar system--and much more. Grounded in Belbruno's own rigorous theoretical research but written for a general audience, Fly Me to the Moon is for anybody who has ever felt moved by the spirit of discovery.

Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Gravity assist (Astrodynamics) --- Celestial mechanics --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Many-body problem --- Outer space --- Exploration

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From its foundation in the late forties, Philosophia Antiqua has been the premier series of monographs on the history of ancient philosophy in the scholarly world, covering all periods from the Presocratics to the later Neoplatonists. The series now emphasises areas that have been less well represented in past literature: Hellenistic philosophy, the Sceptical tradition, Galen and other non-Platonist authors of later antiquity. Alongside traditional text-orientated works (editions, translations, commentaries and analyses of particular texts and authors), the series offers a forum for works … read moreshowing the interaction of ancient and modern topics of philosophical interest and between ancient and modern forms of philosophical analysis. Such less-traditional studies will no longer assume a thorough knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin on the part of the reader. Volumes are published in English, French and German. The series does not include Festschriften.

Planetary theory --- Astronomy --- Théorie des planètes --- Astronomie --- Early works to 1800 --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Simplicius, --- Aristotle. --- Théorie des planètes --- Planets, Theory of --- Celestial mechanics --- Simplikios, --- Σιμπλίκιος, --- Pseudo-Simplicius --- Simplikios --- Simplikios of Cilicia --- Σιμπλίκιος ὁ Κίλιξ --- Simplikios ho Kilix --- Simplicius van Cilicië --- Simplice de Cilicie