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Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757) / by John M. Steele
(Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. ISSN:21968829)

版	1st ed. 2012.
出版者	(New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer)
出版年	2012
本文言語	英語
大きさ	XIV, 154 p. 13 illus : online resource
著者標目	*Steele, John M author SpringerLink (Online service)
件　名	LCSH:Mathematics LCSH:History LCSH:Astronomy -- Observations  全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Astronomy LCSH:Physics -- Philosophy  全ての件名で検索 FREE:History of Mathematical Sciences FREE:Astronomy, Observations and Techniques FREE:Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences FREE:Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy
一般注記	Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Edmond Halley’s Discovery of the Secular Acceleration of the Moon -- 3. A Forgotten Episode in the History of the Secular Acceleration: William Whiston, Arthur Ashley Sykes and the Eclipse of Phlegon -- 4. The Gradual Acceptance of the Existence of the Secular Acceleration During the 1740s -- 5. Eighteenth Century Views of Ancient Astronomy -- 6. The First Detailed Study of the Moon’s Secular Acceleration: Richard Dunthorne -- 7. An Integrated Approach: Tobias Mayer -- 8. The Final Synthesis: Jérôme Lalande -- 9. Epilogue -- References -- Index Historians of astronomy, historians of the ancient world, and astronomers will be enriched by the unique and captivating topics covered in this book. This volume 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 Edmond Halley to the establishment of the magnitude of the acceleration by Richard Dunthorne, Tobias Mayer and Jérôme Lalande in the 1740s and 1750s. The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century sparked a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means with which to study the moon’s ‘secular acceleration’ as this newly-discovered acceleration became known.   John M. Steele tells the story of how the secular acceleration of the moon was discovered, the reception of its discovery, and the first attempts to determine its size of the acceleration from historical data. Additionally, this study addresses the wider question of how ancient and medieval astronomy was viewed in the eighteenth century; particularly European perceptions of ancient Greek, Arabic, Babylonian, and Chinese astronomy.   Making extensive use of previously unstudied manuscripts, this book explores how different astronomers used the same small body of preserved ancient observations in different ways in their work on the secular acceleration.  Further, the broader context of the study of the moon’s secular acceleration, including its use in debates of biblical chronology and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude, are examined HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2149-8

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