Dear Reader, Here is your book. Take it, run with it, pass it, punt
it, enjoy all the many things that you can do with it, but-above
all-read it. Like all textbooks, it was written to help you
increase your knowledge; unlike all too many textbooks that you
have bought, it will be fun to read. A preface usually tells of the
author's reasons for writing the book and the author's goals for
the reader, followed by a swarm of other important matters that
must be attended to yet fit nowhere else in the book. I am
fortunate in being able to include an insightful prepublication
review that goes directly to my motivations and goals. (Look for it
following this preface.) That leaves only those other important
matters. In preparing the text, I consulted a number of books,
chief of which included these: * S. Chandrasekhar, Ellipsoidal
Figures of Equilibrium, Yale Uni versity Press, 1969. * J .M.A.
Danby, Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics, Macmil lan, 1962. Now
available in a 2nd edition, 3rd printing, revised, corrected and
enlarged, Willmann-Bell, 1992. * Y. Hagihara, Theories of
Equilibrium Figures of a Rotating Ho mogeneous Fluid Mass, NASA,
1970. * R.A. Lyttleton, The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses, C-
ix x PREFACE bridge University Press, 1953. * C.B. Officer,
Introduction to Theoretical Geophysics, Springer Verlag, 1974. *
A.S. Ramsey, Newtonian Attraction, Cambridge University Press,
1949. * W.M. Smart, Celestial Mechanics, Longmans, Green, and Co,
1953.
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