Historical eclipses and earth's rotation /
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....
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Variations in the length of the day: a historical perspective
- 2. Tidal friction and the ephemerides of the Sun and Moon
- 3. Pre-telescopic eclipse observations and their analysis
- 4. Babylonian and Assyrian records of eclipses
- 5. Investigation of Babylonian observations of solar eclipses
- 6. Timed Babylonian lunar eclipses
- 7. Untimed Babylonian observations of lunar eclipses: horizon phenomena
- 8. Chinese and other East Asian observations of large solar eclipses
- 9. Other East Asian observations of solar and lunar eclipses
- 10. Records of eclipses in ancient European history
- 11. Eclipse records from medieval Europe
- 12. Solar and lunar eclipses recorded in medieval Arab chronicles
- 13. Observations of eclipses by medieval Arab astronomers
- 14. Determination of changes in the length of the day
- App. A. Timed data
- App. B. Untimed data
- Index of eclipse records
- Index of places of observation.
