Between theory and observations: Tobias Mayer's explorations of lunar motion, 1751 - 1755
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE
.......................................................
V
LIST
OF
FIGURES
................................................
XI
LIST
OF
DISPLAYS
...............................................
XIII
INTRODUCTION
..............................................
1
1.1
SUBJECT
...............................................
1
1.2
ORGANIZATION
...........................................
4
1.3
CONVENTIONS
...........................................
6
2
THE
QUEST
FOR LUNAR
THEORY
..............................
9
2.1
SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE
...................................
9
2.2
APPLICATION
TO
NAVIGATION
...............................
12
2.3
ASTRONOMICAL PREREQUISITES
..............................
15
3
THE
PIONEER S
WORK
......................................
27
3.1
YOUTH
AND
EARLY
CAREER
.................................
27
3.2
THE
GEOGRAPHER S LUNAR
TABLES
..........................
29
3.3
NEW
OPPORTUNITIES
.....................................
30
3.4
A SHIFT
IN
STRATEGY: MULTIPLE
STEPS
.......................
33
3.5
CONTENDING
FOR
THE
LONGITUDE
PRIZE
.......................
34
3.6
HIS
LATER
RESEARCHES
....................................
37
3.7
THE
BOARD S
DECISION
AND
BEYOND
........................
39
4A
MANUAL
TO
THE
TABLES
..................................
43
4.1
ON
TABLES
.............................................
43
4.2
SINGLE-STEP
AND
MULTISTEP
PROCEDURES
.....................
46
4.3
CALENDAR CONVENTIONS
...................................
47
4.4
AN
EXAMPLE
COMPUTATION
...............................
48
4.5
A
NOTE
ON
ACCURACY
....................................
54
4.6
THE
WANDERINGS
OF
EVECTION
.............................
55
VII
VIII
CONTENTS
5
THEORIA
LUNAE
............................................
57
5.1
BACKGROUND
............................................
57
5.2
CIRCUMSTANCES
OF
COMPOSITION
...........................
60
5.3
THROUGH
A
BIRD S
EYE
...................................
63
5.4
MASTERING
THE
THEORY
...................................
66
5.5
SOLVED EQUATIONS
.......................................
88
5.6
CONCLUDING
REMARKS
....................................
88
6
THE
HORROCKS LEGACY
.....................................
91
6.1
NEWTON
ON
LUNAR
MOTION, 1702
..........................
92
6.2
THE
EQUATIONS
OF
NEWTON S THEORY
.......................
95
6.3
HORROCKS S
VARIABLE
ORBIT
................................
97
6.4
OLD WINE
IN
NEW
BOTTLES
................................
100
6.5
LEMONNIER S
VERSION
OF
NTM
............................
104
6.6
LUNAR
TABLES,
PROBABLY
OLDER?
...........................
108
6.7
ACCURACY
OF
THEORIES
COMPARED
..........................
114
6.8
THE
PREFACE
TO
THE
KIT
TABLES
OF
1753
......................
116
6.9
CONCLUSION
............................................
118
7
MULTISTEPS
IN
THEORIA
LUNAE
.............................
121
7.1
THEORIA LUNAE S
BREAKPOINT
.............................
122
7.2
FAILING
ASSERTIONS
......................................
127
7.3
SUBSTITUTION
OF
ARGUMENTS
...............................
130
7.4
AN APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUE
............................
133
7.5
THE
COMPLETE
TRANSFORM
................................
136
7.6
CONCLUSIONS
............................................
139
8
`HAUSBACKENE
COMBINATIONEN.............................
143
8.1
A SEARCH
IN
THE
LITERATURE
...............................
144
8.2
A VARIETY
OF
MANUSCRIPTS
................................
150
8.3
A
PAIR
OF
PLIERS
........................................
153
8.4
A
ROLE
FOR EACH MANUSCRIPT
.............................
160
8.5
SPREADSHEETS
...........................................
162
8.6
RESULTS
................................................
173
9
FURTHER
ASPECTS
OF
MODEL
FITTING
.........................
177
9.1
THE
QUALITY
OF
OBSERVATIONS
.............................
178
9.2
WORLD TEMPERATURE
DISTRIBUTION
.........................
181
9.3
ON
AVERAGING
AND
CANCELLING
............................
182
9.4
LIBRATION:
A CASE
OF
MODEL
FITTING
.......................
185
9.5
EULER S
LUNAR TABLES
OF
1746
.............................
195
10
CONCLUDING
OBSERVATIONS
.................................
199
10.1
GENERAL CONCLUSION
.....................................
199
10.2
FURTHER
RESEARCH
.......................................
204
10.3
THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF
MAYER S
LUNAR
TABLES:
A SUMMARY
.....
206
CONTENTS
IX
A
LUNAR EQUATIONS: VERSIONS
AND
ALIASES
...................
209
B
SPREADSHEET
CONTENTS
....................................
217
C
MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
......................................
229
REFERENCES
....................................................
233
INDEX
.........................................................
241
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