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A re-evaluation of Brown's Lunar Theory has long been awaited. While working on this problem a number of questions about the adequacy of Brown's approach have arisen, and some of these questions including that of the need for a literal solution of the main problem are discussed in this paper.
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Griffith, J.S. On some approximations in Brown's lunar theory. Celestial Mechanics 4, 54–59 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01230321
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01230321