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What Brown called “the main problem” in the lunar theory consisted in the deduction, from Newton’s law of gravitation alone, of the motions of the Moon under the restrictions that the Moon, Earth, and Sun be regarded as point-particles, and the center of gravity of the Earth and Moon be assumed to move about the Sun in a fixed elliptic orbit.
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Wilson, C. (2010). The “Main Problem” Solved. In: The Hill-Brown Theory of the Moon’s Motion. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5937-9_12
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