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The Dance of the Moon
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Pari Spolter
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Orb Pub Co
Publication date
March 16, 2015
Pages
191
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780963810786
ISBN-10
0963810782
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
Original list price
$42.75
Other format details
sci/tech
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Explanation of the complex motion of the Moon. In this book, you will not find a long series of advanced mathematical equations. There are no theory or assumptions. Instead, you will find many easy to understand graphs based on the latest ephemerides of unprecedented accuracy.
KIRKUS REVIEW
A book that attempts to explain the motion of the moon—a phenomenon that has baffled astronomers for quite some time.
In this work, Spolter (Gravitational Force of the Sun, 1994) delves into lunar movement. As she points out in her preface, this book isn’t full of mathematical equations or theories; instead, it presents “easy to understand graphs based on the latest ephemerides of unprecedented accuracy.” The motion of the moon is a problem that has attracted many of the great astronomical and mathematical minds over the centuries. Sir Isaac Newton himself couldn’t explain it, and the 18th century Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonard Euler abandoned his own work on it. The problem is so incredibly difficult because it’s a “three-body” problem; that is, it involves the sun and the earth as well, which makes it mathematically complex from the start. Furthermore, any proposed theories can be easily compared with real-world observations, making errors immediately apparent. However, Spolter here has tools that no one before the modern era could have imagined. Atomic clocks play a key role, for example, as does lunar laser-ranging technique, as well as specialized software. Drawing on her own previously published research, Spolter provides readers with a series of graphs measuring the moon’s periods, its perturbation by the sun, the eclipse cycle, and the “obliquity of the ecliptic,” among other lunar phenomena. Readers need not have advanced degrees in math or astronomy to understand it, but Spolter’s analysis does demand one’s full attention, and at least a high degree of familiarity with mathematical concepts and symbols. Those who don’t have these skills may not fully appreciate the author’s work. That said, readers who are familiar with the overall problem, and with the means that the author uses to solve it, will find it very intriguing indeed.
A complex collection of lunar data that invites interpretation and consideration.
KIRKUS REVIEW
A book that attempts to explain the motion of the moon—a phenomenon that has baffled astronomers for quite some time.
In this work, Spolter (Gravitational Force of the Sun, 1994) delves into lunar movement. As she points out in her preface, this book isn’t full of mathematical equations or theories; instead, it presents “easy to understand graphs based on the latest ephemerides of unprecedented accuracy.” The motion of the moon is a problem that has attracted many of the great astronomical and mathematical minds over the centuries. Sir Isaac Newton himself couldn’t explain it, and the 18th century Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonard Euler abandoned his own work on it. The problem is so incredibly difficult because it’s a “three-body” problem; that is, it involves the sun and the earth as well, which makes it mathematically complex from the start. Furthermore, any proposed theories can be easily compared with real-world observations, making errors immediately apparent. However, Spolter here has tools that no one before the modern era could have imagined. Atomic clocks play a key role, for example, as does lunar laser-ranging technique, as well as specialized software. Drawing on her own previously published research, Spolter provides readers with a series of graphs measuring the moon’s periods, its perturbation by the sun, the eclipse cycle, and the “obliquity of the ecliptic,” among other lunar phenomena. Readers need not have advanced degrees in math or astronomy to understand it, but Spolter’s analysis does demand one’s full attention, and at least a high degree of familiarity with mathematical concepts and symbols. Those who don’t have these skills may not fully appreciate the author’s work. That said, readers who are familiar with the overall problem, and with the means that the author uses to solve it, will find it very intriguing indeed.
A complex collection of lunar data that invites interpretation and consideration.
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from Orb Pub Co (March 16, 2015)
9780963810786 | details & prices | 191 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $42.75
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