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Pre-Telescopic Astronomical Observations

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Tidal Friction and the Earth’s Rotation

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The ideas that the Earth’s rotation was non-uniform and that the orbital motion of the Moon was accelerated (two of the themes central to the present conference) were conceived more than two centuries ago However, a sound grasp of the whole problem has only been realised in the last few decades.

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  1. Institute of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, School of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England

    F. R. Stephenson

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  1. Observatorium Hoher List, Universitätssternwarte Bonn, 5568, Daun/Eifel, Germany

    Peter Brosche

  2. Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg, Heimhuder Straße 71, 2000, Hamburg 13, Germany

    Jürgen Sündermann

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Stephenson, F.R. (1978). Pre-Telescopic Astronomical Observations. In: Brosche, P., Sündermann, J. (eds) Tidal Friction and the Earth’s Rotation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67097-8_2

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