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The Variation of UT from 700 BC to the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

F.R. Stephenson  and
L.V. Morrison
F.R. Stephenson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE.UK
L.V. Morrison
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0EZ.UK

Abstract

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Records of solar and lunar eclipses in the period 700 BC to AD 1600 originating from the ancient and medieval civilisations of Babylon, China, Europe and the Arab world are amassed and critically appraised for their usefulness in answering questions about the long-term variability of the Earth’s rate of rotation. Results from previous analyses of lunar occultations in the period AD 1600-1955.5 and from high-precision data in AD 1955.5-1990 are included in the dataset considered in this paper.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 10: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIInd General Assembly of the IAU, 1994 , 1995 , pp. 258
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995