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On the Obliquity of the Ecliptic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

K.Y. Chen
K.Y. Chen*
Affiliation:
University of FloridaGainesville, Florida 32611-2055, U. S. A.

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This study was originally motivated from the discussion of the obliquity of the ecliptic, e, in the work of Needham (1959) and his collaborators, and the article, “An 8-th Century Meridian Line,” by Beer et al. (1961). A search in the historical records yields values of e in addition to the published values in the literatures.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU (Part B), 1997 , 1998 , pp. 716 - 718
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998

References

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