Solar Eclipse Times Predicted by the Babylonians

Journal for the History of Astronomy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-139

  Steele, J M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992785635     PISSN: 00218286     EISSN: 17538556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002182869702800204     Document Type: Article

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2. Sachs A. J., Late Babylonian astronomical and related texts (Providence, 1955).
3. Walker C. B. F., private communication.
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10. The ephemerides used were the solar ephemeris of Newcomb S., “Tables of the Sun”, Astronomical papers of the American Ephemeris, vi (1895), Part 1, and the lunar ephemeris j = 2, Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, xiiiB (1968), 48. Adopted in all computations was a lunar acceleration of −26′/cy2, very close to that determined by Dickey J. O., “Lunar laser ranging: A continuing legacy of the Apollo program”, Science, cclxv (1994), 482–90.