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George William Hill (1838–1914), a mathematician with the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office from 1861 to 1892, in two papers of 1877 and 1878 laid the foundations of a new lunar theory, departing from a basic pattern that had characterized earlier algebraic theories of the Moon’s motions with one exception, to be mentioned below.
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Wilson, C. (2010). George William Hill, Mathematician. In: The Hill-Brown Theory of the Moon’s Motion. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5937-9_1
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