Papers, etc.
Papers are at Yale Observatory Archives. Brouwer is discussed in the AIP Center for History of Physics oral history interviews with E.D. Hoffleit and A.J. Wesselink.Other References: Historical
Comrie, L.J., “The Application of the Hollerith Tabulating Machine to Brown’s Tables of the Moon,” MNRAS 92, 694-707 (1932).
Hoffleit, Dorrit, Astronomy at Yale, 1901-68 (Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, New Haven, CT, 1992). [excerpt]
Hoffleit, Dorrit, “Some Glimpses from My Career,” Mercury 21, 1, 16-18 (1992).
Hoffleit, Dorrit, “Yale and USNO Cooperation, Especially in the Brouwer and Clemence Era,” Comments on Astrophysics, 16, 1, 17-30 (1992).
Hoots, Felix R., “Celestial Mechanics,” Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology, 2, 590-603.
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Other References:Scientific
Brouwer, Dirk, “The Motions of the Outer Planets,” MNRAS 115, 221 (1955). [George Darwin Lecture]
Brouwer, Dirk, “Current Trends in Minor Planet Research,” Vistas in Astronomy 2, 943-48 (1956).
Brouwer, Dirk & Gen-Ichiro Hori, “Theoretical Evaluation of Atmospheric Drag Effects in the Motion of an Artificial Satellite,” A.J. 66, 193 (1961) and 66, 39 (1961).
Brouwer, Dirk & Gerald M. Clemence, Methods of Celestial Mechanics (Academic Press, NY, 1961).
Brouwer, Dirk, “Review of Celestial Mechanics,” Ann. Revs. of Astronomy & Astrophysics 1, 219-34 (1963).
Brouwer, Dirk, ““The Problem of the Kirkwood Gaps in the Asteroid Belt,” Astronomical Journal 68, 152-59 (1963).
Brouwer, Dirk, “Orbits in the Solar and Stellar Systems,” Science 146, 1602-03 (1964).
Brouwer, D., “Relations among Some Important Astronomical Constants,” in The System of Astronomical Constants, Proceedings of the IAU Symposium no. 21 ,edited by Jean Kovalevsky. International Astronomical Union. Symposium no. 21 (Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1965), p.241.
Brouwer, Dirk & Gerald M. Clemence, The Motions of the Five Outer Planets (Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy, MacMillan Co., 1965).
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