Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 170)

by Michael A. Houlden and F. Richard Stephenson

This is a supplement to the planetary, lunar and solar tables produced by Bryant Tuckerman (1962, 1964). These tables have proved an invaluable aid to historians of astronomy. An important usage is the dating of ancient and medieval astronomical observations, but the tables also have wide application in determining the accuracy of early measurements and calculations. This supplementary volume owes its origin to the discovery by the authors of significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871691701
• ISBN13: 9780871691705
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 564 Pages