| 期刊全称 | Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757) | | 影响因子2023 | John M. Steele | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Presents a detailed study of previously unexplored aspect of the history of astronomy.The study makes extensive use of previously unpublished and unstudied manuscript material.The work of eighteenth c | | 学科分类 | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moon’s ‘secular acceleration’, as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon’s secular acceleration from its discovery by Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jérôme Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts, this work shows how different astronomers used the same small body of preserved ancient observations in different ways in their work on the secular acceleration. In addition, this work looks at the wider context of the study of the moon’s secular acceleration, including its use in debates of biblical chronology, whether the heavens were made up of æther, and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude. It also discusses wider issues of the perc | | Pindex | Book 2012 |
The information of publication is updating
|
|
发表于 2025-3-21 16:55:22
