New insights from recent studies in historical astronomy: following in the footsteps of f. Richard stephenson : a meeting to honor f. Richard stephenson on his 70th birthday / edited by Wayne Orchiston, David A. Green, Richard Strom.

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Foreword -- Participants -- The Authors -- Conference Program -- Conference Photograph -- Part I: Applied Historical Astronomy -- The Length of the Day: Richard Stephenson’s Contribution -- Determination of ?T and Lunar Tidal Acceleration from Ancient Eclipses and Occultations -- The Legendary Fourth-Century Total Solar Eclipse in Georgia: Fact or Fantasy -- The Eclipse of Theon and Earth’s Rotation -- A Homage to Richard Stephenson: French Observations of the Sun at the Time of the ‘Sun King’ -- Evidence for Recurrent Auroral Activity in the Twelfth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Historical Supernova Explosions in our Galaxy and their Remnants -- Part II: Islamic and Oriental Astronomy -- Historical Astronomy of the Caucasus: Sources from Georgia and Armenia -- Annular Eclipses and Considerations about Solar and Lunar Angular Diameters in Medieval Astronomy -- The Investigation of Stars, Star Clusters and Nebulae in ?bd al-Ra?m?n al-??f?’s Book of the Fixed Stars -- ?bd al-Ra?m?n al-??f?’s 3-Step Magnitude System -- A Thorough Collation of Astronomical Records in the Twenty-five Histories of China -- Some Statistical Aspects of Historical Chinese Astronomical Records -- Part III: Amateur Astronomy -- The Clash between William Herschel and the Great German ‘Amateur’ Astronomer Johann Schroeter -- Henry Beighton’s Eclipse Chart -- Portuguese Amateur Astronomy (1850-1910) -- The Amateur-Turned-Professional Syndrome: Two Australian Case Studies -- Index.

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