de Pontecoulant, PG (English spelling)

Japanese: de Pontécoulant,P.G.(英語表記)dePontecoulantPG
de Pontecoulant, PG (English spelling)

… Newton discussed the motion of the moon in his book Principia, which was the beginning of the theory of lunar motion. Following Newton, AC Clairaut, L. Euler, J. d'Alembert, PS Laplace, MCT Damoiseau (1768-1846), JW Lubbock (1803-65), PG de Pontécoulant (1795-1874), G. Plana (1781-1864), SD Poisson, PA Hansen, CE Delaunay, GW Hill, JC Adams, Brown, and others appeared one after another. Among them, Hansen's Lunar Table (1857), which was based on his theory, was used as the basic data for estimating the position of the moon in the astronomical almanac for more than half a century, but it was not until 1923 that Brown's Lunar Table (1919) was succeeded. …

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Japanese:

… ニュートンはその著《プリンキピア》の中で月の運動を論じており,これが月運動論の嚆矢(こうし)である。ニュートンに続いてA.C.クレロー,L.オイラー,J.ダランベール,P.S.ラプラス,ダモアゾーM.C.T.Damoiseau(1768‐1846),ラボックJ.W.Lubbock(1803‐65),ド・ポンテクーランP.G.de Pontécoulant(1795‐1874),プラーナG.Plana(1781‐1864),S.D.ポアソン,P.A.ハンセン,C.E.ドローネー,G.W.ヒル,J.C.アダムズ,ブラウンなどの理論が相次いで現れた。この中でハンセンがその理論に基づいて作成した《太陰表》(1857)は,その後半世紀余にわたって天体暦の月の位置推算の基礎データとして使われたが,ようやく1923年にブラウンの《太陰表》(1919)に引き継がれた。…

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