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Historical Eclipses and Earth s Rotation
Author | : F. Richard Stephenson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 1997-06-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521461948 |
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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.
Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps
Author | : F. R. Stephenson,M. A. Houlden |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1986-04-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521267234 |
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An essential reference work for research libraries, first published in 1986.
Growth Rhythms and the History of the Earth s Rotation
Author | : Gary D. Rosenberg,S. K. Runcorn |
Publsiher | : Wiley-Interscience |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822012780136 |
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Solar Eclipse
Author | : Thomas Crump |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105021709402 |
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Published in preparation for the total eclip se of the sun due on 11 August 1999, this book sets out the rules of motion of planets and their moons and describes the influence of solar eclipses on people and their actions. '
Time From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics
Author | : Dennis D. McCarthy,P. Kenneth Seidelmann |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781107197282 |
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This accessible reference presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping, for historians, scientists, engineers, and educators. The second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances, progress in devices, time and cosmology, the redefinition of SI units, and the future of UTC.
New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy Following in the Footsteps of F Richard Stephenson
Author | : Wayne Orchiston,David A. Green,Richard Strom |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2014-11-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319076140 |
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This book contains papers from a conference held to celebrate the 70th birthday of one of the world’s foremost astronomical historians, Professor F. Richard Stephenson, the latest recipient of the American Astronomical Society’s highest award for research in astronomical history, the LeRoy Doggett Prize. Reflecting Professor Stephenson’s extensive research portfolio, this book brings together under one cover papers on four different areas of scholarship: applied historical astronomy (which Stephenson founded); Islamic astronomy; Oriental astronomy and amateur astronomy. These papers are penned by astronomers from Canada, China, England, France, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Portugal, Thailand and the USA. Its diverse coverage represents a wide cross-section of the history of astronomy community. Under discussion are ways in which recent research using historical data has provided new insights into auroral and solar activity, supernovae and changes in the rotation rate of the Earth. It also presents readers with results of recent research on leading historical figures in Islamic and Oriental astronomy, and aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century Australian, British, German and Portuguese amateur astronomy, including the fascinating ‘amateur-turned-professional syndrome’.
Historical Eclipses
Author | : Andrew Steinmetz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Solar eclipses |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555092439 |
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The Sun Recorded Through History
Author | : J.M. Vaquero,M. Vázquez |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2009-04-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780387927909 |
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The Sun is nowadays observed using di?erent techniques that provide an almost instantaneous 3-D map of its structure. Of particular interest is the studyofthevariabilityinthesolaroutputproducedbythedissipationofm- netic energy on di?erent spatial and temporal scales – the so-called magnetic activity. The 11-year cycle is the main feature describing this phenomenon. Apart from its intrinsic scienti?c interest, this topic is worth studying because of the interaction of such processes with the terrestrial environment. A ?eet of space and ground-based observatories are currently monitoring the behaviour of our star on a daily basis. However, solar activity varies not only on this decadal time-scale, as has been attested mainly through two methods: (a) records of the number of sunspots observed on the solar surface from 1610, and (b) the records of 14 10 cosmogenic isotopes, such as Cand Be, measured in tree-rings and i- cores, respectively. The study of the long-term behaviour of solar activity may be comp- mented by the study of historical accounts describing phenomena directly or indirectly related to solar activity. Numerous scienti?c and non-scienti?c d- uments have reported these events and we can make use of them as a proxy of solar activity in past times.