New and Full Moons, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 94)

by Herman H. Goldstine

Originally pub. in 1973; reprinted in 1994. Presents tables giving the dates of all new and full moons during an historical era when these data were of considerable interest and importance. The longitudes of the moon at each of these times is also given, as is a consecutive enumeration of the conjunctions and a similar one of the oppositions. All dates are reckoned in the Julian calendar. These dates and times are calculated for an observer in Babylon,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871690942
• ISBN13: 9780871690944
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 221 Pages