15.
Since, as we have seen, the mean anomaly is completely determined by means of and in the same manner as by and it is evident, that if all these quantities are regarded as variable together, an equation of condition ought to exist between their differential variations, the investigation of which will not be superfluous. By differentiating first, equation VII., article 8, we obtain
by differentiating likewise equation XII., it becomes
If we eliminate from these differential equations we have
or by substituting for their values from equations VIII., III.,
or lastly, if we express both coefficients by means of and only,
Inversely, if we consider as a function of the quantities the equation has this form:-
or by introducing instead of