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New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson

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    Chapter 1 The Length of the Day: Richard Stephenson’s Contribution
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    Chapter 2 Determination of ΔT and Lunar Tidal Acceleration from Ancient Eclipses and Occultations
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    Chapter 3 The Legendary Fourth-Century Total Solar Eclipse in Georgia: Fact or Fantasy?
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    Chapter 4 The Eclipse of Theon and Earth’s Rotation
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    Chapter 5 Homage to Richard Stephenson: French Observations of the Sun at the Time of the ‘Sun King’
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    Chapter 6 Evidence for Recurrent Auroral Activity in the Twelfth and Seventeenth Centuries
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    Chapter 7 New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson
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    Chapter 8 Historical Astronomy of the Caucasus: Sources from Georgia and Armenia
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    Chapter 9 Annular Eclipses and Considerations About Solar and Lunar Angular Diameters in Medieval Astronomy
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    Chapter 10 The Investigation of Stars, Star Clusters and Nebulae in 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Fixed Stars
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    Chapter 11 ’Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s 3-Step Magnitude System
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    Chapter 12 A Thorough Collation of Astronomical Records in the Twenty-Five Histories of China
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    Chapter 13 Some Statistical Aspects of Historical Chinese Astronomy Records
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    Chapter 14 The Clash Between William Herschel and the Great German ‘Amateur’ Astronomer Johann Schroeter
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    Chapter 15 Henry Beighton’s Eclipse Chart
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    Chapter 16 Portuguese Amateur Astronomy (1850–1910)
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    Chapter 17 The Amateur-Turned-Professional Syndrome: Two Australian Case Studies
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Chapter title
The Amateur-Turned-Professional Syndrome: Two Australian Case Studies
Chapter number 17
Book title
New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson
Published in
ADS, January 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07614-0_17
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-907613-3, 978-3-31-907614-0
Authors

Wayne Orchiston

Editors

Wayne Orchiston, David A. Green, Richard Strom

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Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 25%
Researcher 1 25%
Student > Master 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 25%
Physics and Astronomy 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%

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