Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
An investigation has compiled a very large amount of data on central or near central solar eclipses as recorded in four principal ancient sources (Greek and Roman classics, medieval European chronicles, Chinese annals and astronomical treatises, and Late Babylonian astronomical texts) and applied careful data selectivity criteria and statistical methods to obtain reliable dates, magnitudes, and places of observation of the events, and thereby made estimates of the earth acceleration and lunar acceleration. The basic conclusion is that the lunar acceleration and both tidal and nontidal earth accelerations have been essentially constant during the period from 1375 B.C. to the present.
Keywords:
LUNAR AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION
Type:
Growth rhythms and the history of the earth''s rotation; Jan 08, 1974 - Jan 10, 1974; Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Format:
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