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Up to the recent past, approximately to the first half of the 20th century, celestial mechanics represented a rather unpopular field of astronomy and an even less popular field of science in general.

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Cornelis De Jager (General Secretary of the Union)

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De Jager, C. (1973). Celestial Mechanics. In: De Jager, C. (eds) Transactions of the International Astronomical Union Volume XVA. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2587-4_4

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