New and Full Moons, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 94) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871690944)

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, or equivalently Baghdad, since this location is fairly centrally located for the historians of the period. The time used is civil time and is based on a 24-hour clock with its origin at midnight. Since this vol. may be considered as a suppl. to Tuckerman's tables, all fundamental astronomical elements have been taken from them.

Author: Herman H. Goldstine
ISBN-10: 0871690942
ISBN-13: 9780871690944
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.56d