Insigniores orbitae cometarum proprietates
Year of Conception: June-July 1757
Year of Writing: 1760
Year of Publication: 1761
Subject: Astronomy
Publication: Insigniores orbitae cometarum proprietates. Augsburg, 1761.(2)
Translations: Ueber die Eigenschaften der Cometenbewegung. In: J.H. Lambert's Abhandlungen zur Bahnbestimmung der Cometen, hrsg. von J. Bauschinger, 1902 (Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften Nr. 133), pp. 3-108.(3)
Description:
Lambert explains and exemplifies a
new method to find the orbit of a comet on the basis of three
observations. The method is a geometric one, using conic sections and
their projections.
Reviews: none