Essai sur la théorie des satellites de Jupiter, suivi des tables de leurs mouvemens, déduits du principe de la gravitation universelle; avec les tables de Jupiter, par M. Jeaurat.
Paris, Nyon, 1766. First edition. The major work of Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), who succeded Lacaille as a member of Académie des Sciences. "Bailly approached the problem of inequalities in the motions of the four known satellites of Jupiter with Clairaut's lunar theory in mind. Improvements had been made in tables..... More