Excerpt from Œuvres de Lagrange, Vol. 12
On peut ranger en trois classes tous les systèmes de corps qui agissent les uns sur les autres. Et dont on peut déterminer le mou vement par les lois de la Mécanique; car leur action mutuelle ne peut s'exercer que de trois manières différentes qui nous soient connues ou par des forces d'attraction, lorsque les corps sont isolés, ou par des liens qui les unissent, ou enfin par la collision immédiate. Notre sys teme planétaire appartient a la première classe, et par cette raison les problèmes qui s'y rapportent doivent tenir le premier rang parmi tous les problèmes de la Dynamique. Nous allons en faire l'objet de cette Secüon.
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