Historical eclipses and earth's rotation / (Record no. 522311)
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| control field | UkCbUP |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20200124160328.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780511525186 (ebook) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521461948 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521056335 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | x------ |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QB541 |
| Item number | .S663 1997 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 523.3/8/09 |
| Edition number | 20 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Stephenson, F. Richard |
| Fuller form of name | (Francis Richard), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1941- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Historical eclipses and earth's rotation / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | F. Richard Stephenson. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Historical Eclipses & Earth's Rotation |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 1997. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xvi, 557 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
| 336 ## - Content Type (R) | |
| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
| Source (NR) | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type (R) | |
| Media type term (R) | computer |
| Media type code (R) | c |
| Source (NR) | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) | |
| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
| Carrier type code (R) | cr |
| Source (NR) | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. Variations in the length of the day: a historical perspective -- 2. Tidal friction and the ephemerides of the Sun and Moon -- 3. Pre-telescopic eclipse observations and their analysis -- 4. Babylonian and Assyrian records of eclipses -- 5. Investigation of Babylonian observations of solar eclipses -- 6. Timed Babylonian lunar eclipses -- 7. Untimed Babylonian observations of lunar eclipses: horizon phenomena -- 8. Chinese and other East Asian observations of large solar eclipses -- 9. Other East Asian observations of solar and lunar eclipses -- 10. Records of eclipses in ancient European history -- 11. Eclipse records from medieval Europe -- 12. Solar and lunar eclipses recorded in medieval Arab chronicles -- 13. Observations of eclipses by medieval Arab astronomers -- 14. Determination of changes in the length of the day -- App. A. Timed data -- App. B. Untimed data -- Index of eclipse records -- Index of places of observation. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book is intended for geophysicists, astronomers (especially those with an interest in history), historians and orientalists. The culmination of many years of research, it discusses, in depth, ancient and medieval eclipse observations and their importance in studying Earth's past rotation. This was the first major book on this subject to appear in the last twenty years. The author has specialised in the interpretation of early astronomical records and their application to problems in modern astronomy for many years. The book contains an in-depth discussion of numerous eclipse records from Babylon, China, Europe and the Arab lands. Translations of almost every record studied are given. It is shown that although tides play a dominant long-term role in producing variations in Earth's rate of rotation - causing a gradual increase in the length of the day - there are significant, and variable non-tidal changes in opposition to the main trend. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Eclipses. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Earth (Planet) |
| General subdivision | Rotation. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521461948 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525186">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525186</a> |
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