Our presentation of some fundamental domains of celestial mechanics requires no special preliminary knowledge; however, the chosen mathe­ matical method is new in so far as the pure two-body motion is described by linear differential equations, which even have constant coefficients. In other words an equivalence between the Keplerian motion and a harmonic oscillation is established; this approach to celestial mechanics will be referred to as the linear theory. Besides the possibility of the mutual fruitful interaction between celestial and oscillatory mechanics which is thereby created, our linear differential equations are as a result everywhere regular. The opposite is true of the classical Newtonian equations, which are singular at the collision of the two moving bodies"'Reg | Linear and Regular Celestial Mechanics by Eduard L. Stiefel, Paperback | Indigo Chapters