This book is intended for geophysicists, astronomers (especially
those with an interest in history), historians and orientalists.
The culmination of many years of research, it discusses, in depth,
ancient and medieval eclipse observations and their importance in
studying Earth's past rotation. This was the first major book on
this subject to appear in the last twenty years. The author has
specialised in the interpretation of early astronomical records and
their application to problems in modern astronomy for many years.
The book contains an in-depth discussion of numerous eclipse
records from Babylon, China, Europe and the Arab lands.
Translations of almost every record studied are given. It is shown
that although tides play a dominant long-term role in producing
variations in Earth's rate of rotation - causing a gradual increase
in the length of the day - there are significant, and variable
non-tidal changes in opposition to the main trend.
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