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  • Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy
    John M. Steele / John MSteele
    This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at that point to rise above the eastern horizon. Schemes known as 'rising time schemes' were used to give lengths ...
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  • Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757)
    John M. Steele
    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 firs...
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