History of Astronomy: Topics: Celestial Mechanics

Classical Mechanics, by William Nielsen Brandt
A timeline
Kepler's Laws
Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
On the history of Kepler's Laws; very brief and popular; includes links.
Mathematical discovery of planets
The Metonic Cycle and the Saros
RGO Information Leaflet No. 5
Newton and the Moon, by Nicholas Kollerstrom
Offers historical material relating to theories of the Moon's motion, especially those of Newton and those surrounding him.
Orbits and gravitation
Understanding tidal friction: A history of science in a nutshell, by Peter Brosche
Science Tribune, December 1998