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The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moon’s ‘secular acceleration’, as this newly-discovered acceleration became known. This book contains the first detailed study of the use of ancient and medieval astronomical observations in order to investigate the moon’s secular
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- Author
- Steele, John M.
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781461421481
- Category
- mathematics
- Subjects
- Science, Technology, Astronomy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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