New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson A Meeting to Honor F. Richard Stephenson on His 70th Birthday /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Orchiston, Wayne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Green, David A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Strom, Richard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 43
• Θέματα: Physics.; History.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book contains papers from a conference held to celebrate the 70th birthday of one of the world’s foremost astronomical historians, Professor F. Richard Stephenson, the latest recipient of the American Astronomical Society’s highest award for research in astronomical history, the LeRoy Doggett P...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Participants
• The Authors
• Conference Program
• Conference Photograph
• Part I: Applied Historical Astronomy
• The Length of the Day: Richard Stephenson’s Contribution
• Determination of ΔT and Lunar Tidal Acceleration from Ancient Eclipses and Occultations
• The Legendary Fourth-Century Total Solar Eclipse in Georgia: Fact or Fantasy
• The Eclipse of Theon and Earth’s Rotation
• A Homage to Richard Stephenson: French Observations of the Sun at the Time of the ‘Sun King’
• Evidence for Recurrent Auroral Activity in the Twelfth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Historical Supernova Explosions in our Galaxy and their Remnants
• Part II: Islamic and Oriental Astronomy
• Historical Astronomy of the Caucasus: Sources from Georgia and Armenia
• Annular Eclipses and Considerations about Solar and Lunar Angular Diameters in Medieval Astronomy
• The Investigation of Stars, Star Clusters and Nebulae in Άbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Fixed Stars
• Άbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s 3-Step Magnitude System
• A Thorough Collation of Astronomical Records in the Twenty-five Histories of China
• Some Statistical Aspects of Historical Chinese Astronomical Records
• Part III: Amateur Astronomy
• The Clash between William Herschel and the Great German ‘Amateur’ Astronomer Johann Schroeter
• Henry Beighton’s Eclipse Chart
• Portuguese Amateur Astronomy (1850-1910)
• The Amateur-Turned-Professional Syndrome: Two Australian Case Studies
• Index.