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In this chapter we shall study the universal gravitation, the physical law that describes motions of the planets and their satellites, of the solar system and of the galaxies and their clusters as well as the motions of all bodies up to the boundaries of the Universe. We shall include some elements of the historical process that led to the discoveries and reproduce and comment a few relevant pages both of Galilei and of Newton.
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In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections are to be incorporated.
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A parsec is the distance at which the diameter of the earth orbit is seen under the angle of a second.
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Bettini, A. (2016). Gravitation. In: A Course in Classical Physics 1—Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29257-1_4
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