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Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757) (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon's Motion (1691-1757) (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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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 Jerome 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 aether,
and the use of astronomy in determining geographical longitude. It
also discusses wider issues of the perceptions and knowledge of
ancient and medieval astronomy in the early-modern period. This
book will be of interest to historians of astronomy, astronomers
and historians of the ancient world."
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