... Volume I. As deduced from Solar Eclipses? by Robert R. Newton. ... influence of its self-gravitation and its rotation at its present rate and about its ... particular, it contains the records of 34 solar eclipses that are listed in Table V ...
... solar mechanism and planetary mechanisms Input Pin and slot Hipparchos' lunar ... rotates at the period of the Moon's apogee around the Earth), would simulate the ... rotation of the Moon's apogee--the factor 53 being derived from the calculation of ...
... D , measured limes of solar eclipses; V, measured magnitudes of solar eclipses: and ... rotation needed to bring the point within the path, and we impute the extra rotation ...
... R.R.Newton, Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth, The Johns Hopkins ... Origins (Volume I. As deduced from Solar Eclipses), John Hopkins Press, London, 1979 ... Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, Cambridge University Press, 1997 ...
... In the first study, I used observations of these kinds: conjunctions or occultations involving the Moon or a planet, magnitudes and times of solar and lunar eclipses. times of equinoxes or solstices, and places where solar eclipses were total or nearly so ...
... Newton R.R. Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth. ... I. As deduced from Solar Eclipses). - London: John Hopkins Press, 1979. ... F.R. Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, Cambridge University Press, 1997 ...
... In a sample of nearly 700 records of solar eclipses, the year is wrong in about one ... Grosjean, and W. Vanderleen, Canon of Solar Eclipses, Pergamon Press, New York, 1966 ...