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Studies of the perturbations of Vesta can be divided into three phases in the early nineteenth century. Burckhardt in France was at the forefront in this research, writing a paper on it the very same year Vesta was discovered. The following decade, Pierre Daussy (also in France) published two major studies, and in 1810 Santini (in Italy) “gave Vesta’s secular variations and formulae for her periodic inequalities to the first order of small quantities, on two hypotheses of the value of the major axis.” (Airy 1835:158) A review of a two-volume work by Santini (1819) says it “contains the most noted theorems in spherics, and the formulas generally used in calculations of astronomy, particularly, a detailed account of the methods of Olbers and Gauss for computing the orbits of comets or planets, with Burckhardt’s tables of motion for a parabola, and Gauss’ tables for an ellipse or hyperbola.” (Bowditch 1825:52) Volume 1 of his work treated the asteroids.
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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). The Perturbations of Vesta. In: Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58118-7_7
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