Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 59s)

by Owen Gingerich

These tables cover the period from the mid-17th to the 19th cent. when astronomical ephemerides were evolving most rapidly. These tables resemble those previously pub. by the APS: Tuckerman's "Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1" and "A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649" and Goldstine's "New and Full Moon, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651." The tables contain features consistent with the almanacs and ephemerides pub. in this period: planetary positions are computed for 12 hours U.T. (noon); and the Julian day number is given for new and full moons. An analytical essay examines the theoretical and computational developments in almanac-making in the period that bridges between Kepler and Laplace.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871695901
• ISBN13: 9780871695901
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 97 Pages