Delivery included to the United States

A Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables

A Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables - Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society

Paperback (01 Jan 1986)

Not available for sale

Out of stock

This service is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Publisher's Synopsis

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 errors in Tuckerman's tabular positions of Mars. They made a comparison between Tuckerman's positions for the Sun and planets and those computed from an integrated ephemeris. Only in the case of the longitude of Mars were errors found to be serious.

Book information

ISBN: 9780871691705
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Imprint: American Philosophical Society
Pub date:
DEWEY: 528
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 564
Weight: 1338g
Height: 285mm
Width: 222mm
Spine width: 44mm