Papers, etc.
Papers are at Yale Observatory Archives.Other References: Historical
Archibald, Raymond Clare, A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938 (American Mathematical Society, NY, 1938; Arno Press, NY, 1980).
Brasch, F.E., ed., Sir Isaac Newton, A Bicentenary Evaluation of His Work (Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1928) includes chapter by Brown on “Developments following from Newton’s Work”.
Brouwer, Dirk, “The Motions of the Outer Planets,” MNRAS 115, 221 (1955). [Brouwer’s Darwin lecture]
Brown, E.W., “Co-education in the Colleges and Universities of the United States,” Cambridge Review 17, 330, 331 (1896).
Brown, E.W., “The Problem of the Moon’s Motion,” PASP 32, 93-104 (1920).
Comrie, L.J., “The Application of the Hollerith Tabulating Machine to Brown’s Tables of the Moon,” MNRAS 92, 694-707 (1932).
Darwin, G.H., et al, Scientific Papers (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1907-16). [Volume 5 contains a memoir of Darwin by Brown, who was Darwin’s student].
Eckert, Wallace J., Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (NY, 1940)
Hoffleit, Dorrit, Astronomy at Yale, 1901-68 (Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, New Haven, CT, 1992). [excerpt]
Hoots, Felix R., “Celestial Mechanics,” Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology, 2, 590-603.
de Vaucouleurs, Gérard, Discovery of the Universe (MacMillan, 1957).
Obituary of Wallace Eckert, NY Times, 25 Aug 1971, p. 48.
Gutzwiller, M.C. & D.S. Schmidt, Astronomical Papers of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac 23, Part 1, 1986.
Sadler, D. H., “Comrie, Leslie John,” Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
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Other References:Scientific
Brouwer, Dirk & Gerald M. Clemence, Methods of Celestial Mechanics (Academic Press, NY, 1961).
Brown, E.W., “On the Determination of a Certain Class of Inequalities in the Moon’s Motion,” MNRAS 52, 71-80 (1891).
Brown, E.W., An Introductory Treatise on the Lunar Theory (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1896; Dover, 1960).
Brown, Ernest W., “A Possible Explanation of the Sun-spot Period,” MNRAS 60, 599-606 (1900).
Brown, E.W., “On the Completion of the Solution of the Main Problem in the New Lunar Theory,” MNRAS 65, 104-08 (1904).
Brown, E.W., The Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Due to the Direct Action of the Planets. An Essay which Obtained the Adams Prize in the University of Cambridge for the Year 1907 by Ernest W. Brown (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1908).
Brown, Ernest W., “Lunar Inequalities Due to Planetary Action,” MNRAS 68, 148-70 (1908).
Brown, Ernest W., “On the Plans for New Tables of the Moon’s Motion,” MNRAS 70, 148-75 (1909).
Brown, E.W., “The General Orbits of the Asteroids of the Trojan Group,” Astronomical Journal 35, 69 (1923).
Brown, Ernest W., “Complement to the Tables of the Motion of the Moon, Containing the Remainder Terms for the Century 1800-1900, and Errata in the Tables, by Ernest W. Brown with the assistance of H. B. Hedrick,” Transactions of the Astronomical Observatory of Yale University. 3 155-204 (1926).
Brown, Ernest W., “The Evidence for Changes in the Rate of Rotation of the Earth and Their Geophysical Consequences, with a Summary and Discussion of the Deviations of the Moon and Sun from Their Gravitational Orbits,” Transactions of the Astronomical Observatory of Yale University. 3 205-38 (1926).
Brown, E.W., “On a Criterion for the Prediction of an Unknown Planet,” MNRAS 92, 80-101 (1931).
Brown, Ernest W., Elements of the Theory of Resonance Illustrated by the Motion of a Pendulum (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1932).
Brown, Ernest W., “The Motion of the Moon, 1923-1931,” MNRAS 93, 603 (1933).
Brown, E.W. & Clarence A. Shook, Planetary Theory (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1933; Dover, 1964).
Brown, Ernest W., “The Stellar Problem of Three Bodies,” MNRAS 97, 56-61 (1936); 97, 62-65 (1936); 97, 116-26 (1936); & 97, 388-95 (1937).
Brown, Ernest W., “On the Calculation of the Principal Parts of the Motions of the Lunar Perigee and Node,” Astronomical Journal 45, 84-88 (1936).
Brown, Ernest W. & Dirk Brouwer, “Compilation and Discussion of 1405 Occultations Observed in 1935,” Astronomical Journal 46, 181-88 (1937).
Comrie, L. J., “On the Construction of Tables by Interpolation,” MNRAS 88, 506-23 (1928).
Russell, Henry Norris, “The Determination of the Position of the Moon by Photography,” PASP 32, 105-11 (1920).
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