Literature (chronological)

Kant, Immanuel, “Untersuchung der Frage, ob die Erde in ihrer Umdrehung um die Achse, wodurch sie die Abwechselung des Tages und der Nacht hervorbringt, einige Veränderung seit den ersten Zeiten ihres Ursprungs erlitten habe und woraus man sich ihrer versichern könne, welche von der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin zum Preise für das jetztlaufende Jahr aufgegeben worden”, Wöchentliche Königsbergische Frag- und Anzeigungsnachrichten, nr. 23 & 24 [issues of 8 & 15 June 1754] = Kant’s Gesammelte Schriften (Berlin: Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften/Georg Reimer, 1900), vol. 1, pp. 183-191 – English translation: “Whether the Earth has Undergone an Alteration of its Axial Rotation”, in: William Hastie, Kant’s Cosmogony as in his Essay on the Retardation of the Rotation of the Earth, and his Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1903), pp. 157-165.

Frisi, Paolo, “De moto diurno terrae”, in: Dissertation sur le mouvement diurne de la terre, qui a remporté le prix proposé par l’Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Prusse, pour l’année MDCCLIV, adjugé en MDCCLVI (Berlin: Haude & Spenern, 1756).

Leverrier, U.-J., “Théorie et tables du mouvement apparent du soleil”, Annales de l’Observatoire impérial de Paris, 4 (1858) [ADS link].

Newcomb, Simon, “Tables of the Motion of the Earth on its Axis and around the Sun”, Astronomical Papers prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, 6, part 1 (1895) [not seen].

Brown, Ernest William, “The Evidence for Changes in the Rate of Rotation of the Earth and their Geophysical Consequences”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 12 (1926), 406-413 [JSTOR link].

Brown, Ernest William, “The Evidence for Changes in the Rate of Rotation of the Earth and their Geophysical Consequences: With a Summary and Discussion of the Deviations of the Moon and Sun from their Gravitational Orbits”, Transactions of the Astronomical Observatory of Yale University, 3 (1926), 205-238 [ADS link].

de Sitter, Willem, “On the Secular Accelerations and the Fluctuations of the Longitudes of the Moon, the Sun, Mercury and Venus”, Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands, 4 (1927), 21-38 [ADS link].

de Sitter, Willem, “On the Longitude of the Sun in the Years 1864-1900, and the Rotation of the Earth”, Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands, 4 (1927), 49-50 [ADS link] – errata in ibid., 94 [ADS link].

de Sitter, Willem, “Further Note on the Causes of the Discontinuous Changes of the Earth’s Rotation and their Possible Effect on the Intensity of Gravity”, Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands, 4 (1927), 69-70 [ADS link].

Danjon, André, “Le temps: Sa définition pratique, sa mesure”, l’Astronomie: Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France, 43 (1929), 13-23 [ADS link].

Danjon, André, “La rotation de la terre”, l’Astronomie: Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France, 43 (1929), 115-??? [ADS link].

de Sitter, Willem & Brouwer, Dirk, “On the System of Astronomical Constants”, Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands, 8 (1938), 213-231 [ADS link] – errata in ibid., 10 (1946), 146 [ADS link].

Spencer Jones, H., “The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 99 (1939), 541-558 [ADS link].

Clemence, Gerald Maurice, “On the System of Astronomical Constants”, The Astronomical Journal, 53 (1948), 169-179 [ADS link].

Stoyko, ?., “???”, Bulletin astronomique, 15 (1950), 291-??? [ADS link].

Brouwer, Dirk, “A New Discussion of the Changes in the Earth’s Rate of Rotation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 38 (1952), 1-12 [JSTOR link].

Brouwer, Dirk, “A Study of the Changes in the Rate of Rotation of the Earth”, The Astronomical Journal, 57 (1952), 125-146 [ADS link].

Jackson, J., “On the Standard of Time used in the Calculation of Ephemerides of the Sun and the Moon”, The Observatory, 72 (1952), 233-235 [ADS link].

Woerkom, A.J.J. van, “On Cumulative Sums of Random Numbers”, The Astronomical Journal, 58 (1953), 10-20 [ADS link].

Cousins, A.W.J., “Ephemeris Time”, Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, 13 (1954), 97-98 [ADS link].

Sadler, D.H., “Ephemeris Time”, Occasional Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3 (1954), 103-113 [ADS link].

Stoyko, Anna, “Sur la rotation de la terre”, l’Astronomie: Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France, 70 (1956), 147-155 [ADS link].

van der Waerden, Bartel Leendert, “The Irregular Rotation of the Earth”, in: D. Brouwer (ed.), The Rotation of the Earth and Atomic Time Standards: International Astronomical Union Symposium no. 11 held in Moscow, August 1958 (Lancaster: Lancaster Press Inc., 1959), pp. 16-17 [ADS link] = The Astronomical Journal, 64 (1959), 96-97 [ADS link].

Brouwer, Dirk, “Fluctuations and Secular Changes in the Earth’s Rotation”, in: D. Brouwer (ed.), The Rotation of the Earth and Atomic Time Standards: International Astronomical Union Symposium no. 11 held in Moscow, August 1958 (Lancaster: Lancaster Press Inc., 1959), pp. 17-19 [ADS link] = The Astronomical Journal, 64 (1959), 97-99 [ADS link].

Danjon, André, “Variation progressive et variation saisonnière de la rotation de la Terre”, in: D. Brouwer (ed.), The Rotation of the Earth and Atomic Time Standards: International Astronomical Union Symposium no. 11 held in Moscow, August 1958 (Lancaster: Lancaster Press Inc., 1959), pp. 22-23 [ADS link] = The Astronomical Journal, 64 (1959), 102-103 [ADS link].

Clemence, Gerald Maurice, “Ephemeris Time”, in: D. Brouwer (ed.), The Rotation of the Earth and Atomic Time Standards: International Astronomical Union Symposium no. 11 held in Moscow, August 1958 (Lancaster: Lancaster Press Inc., 1959), pp. 33-34 [ADS link] = The Astronomical Journal, 64 (1959), 113-114 [ADS link].

Murray, C.A., “On the Determination of Ephemeris Time”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 119 (1959), 612-615 [ADS link].

Aoki, Shinkô, “Effect of Equinox Correction on the Determination of the Ephemeris Time”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 12 (1960), 106-109 [ADS link].

Clemence, Gerald Maurice, “The Practical Use of Ephemeris Time”, Sky and Telescope, 19 (1960), 148-149 [ADS link].

Murray, C.A., “On the Determination of Ephemeris Time: A Correction”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 120 (1960), 515-516 [ADS link].

Aoki, Shinkô, “Discussion on Longitude Differences of Catalogues in View of Determining Ephemeris Time”, The Astronomical Journal, 66 (1961), 1-4 [ADS link].

Tuckerman, Bryant, Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1, at Five-day and Ten-day Intervals (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1962 [= Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, nr. 56]).

Makemson, Maud W., “Ephemeris Time and Universal Time”, Leaflets of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 9 (1963), 49-56 [nr. 407] [ADS link].

Kovalevsky, J., “Le temps des éphémérides”, L’Astronomie: Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France, 78 (1964), 321-329 [ADS link].

Tuckerman, Bryant, Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649, at Five-day and Ten-day Intervals (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1964 [= Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, nr. 59]).

Nicholson, W. & Sadler, D.H., “Atomic Standards of Frequency and the Second of Ephemeris Time”, Nature, 210 (1966), 187-??? [Nature link].

Martin, Charles Franklin, A Study of the Rate of Rotation of the Earth from Occultations of Stars by the Moon 1627-1860 ([New Haven]: Yale diss., 1969) [not seen].

Stoyko, Anna, “Temps des éphémérides, temps atomique, temps rotationel et leur comparison”, Bulletin de l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, Classe de Sciences, 5e Sér., 55 (1969), 286-296 [ADS link].

Clemence, Gerald Maurice, “The Concept of Ephemeris Time: A Case of Inadvertent Plagiarism”, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2 (1971), 73-79 [ADS link].

Goldstine, Herman Heine, New and Full Moons, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1973 [= Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, nr. 94]).

Felber, H.-J., “Kants Beitrag zur Frage der Verzögerung der Erdrotation”, Die Sterne: Zeitschrift für alle Gebiete der Himmelskunde, 50 (1974), 82-90.

Lambeck, K., “Effects of Tidal Dissipation in the Oceans on the Moon’s Orbit and the Earth’s Rotation”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 80 (1975), 2917-22925 [ADS link].

Morrison, Leslie V. & Ward, C.G., “An Analysis of the Transits of Mercury: 1677-1973”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 173 (1975), 183-206 [ADS link].

Muller, P.M. & Stephenson, Francis Richard, “The Accelerations of the Earth and Moon from Early Astronomical Observations”, in: G.D. Rosenberg & S.K. Runcorn (eds.), Growth Rhythms and the History of the Earth’s Rotation: Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Winter Conference on Biological Clocks and Changes in the Earth’s Rotation, Geophysical and Astronomical Consequences, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, January 8-10, 1974 (London: Wiley, 1975), pp. 459-534 [not seen].

Brosche, Peter, “Kant und die Gezeitenreibung”, Die Sterne: Zeitschrift für alle Gebiete der Himmelskunde, 53 (1977), 114-117.

Winkler, Gernot M.R. & van Flandern, Thomas C., “Ephemeris Time, Relativity, and the Problem of Uniform Time in Astronomy”, The Astronomical Journal, 82 (1977), 84-92 [ADS link].

Stephenson, Francis Richard, “Pre-Telescopic Astronomical Observations”, in: P. Brosche & J. Sündermann (eds.), Tidal Friction and the Earth’s Rotation (Berlin [etc.]: Springer-Verlag, 1978), pp. 5-21.

Morrison, Leslie V., “Tidal Deceleration of the Earth’s Rotation deduced from Astronomical Observations in the Period A.D. 1600 to the Present”, in: P. Brosche & J. Sündermann (eds.), Tidal Friction and the Earth’s Rotation (Berlin [etc.]: Springer-Verlag, 1978), pp. 22-27.

Stephenson, Francis Richard & Clark, David H., Applications of Early Astronomical Records (Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd, 1978 [= Monographs on Astronomical Subjects, nr. 4]).

Meeus, Jean, Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (Hove: Volkssterrenwacht Urania V.Z.W. en Vereniging voor Sterrenkunde V.Z.W., 1979 [= Monografiëen over Astronomie en Astrofysica, nr. 4]), chapter 5.

Morrison, Leslie V., “Re-Determination of the Decade Fluctuations in the Rotation of the Earth in the Period 1861-1978”, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 58 (1979), 349-360.

Morrison, Leslie V., “An Analysis of Lunar Occultations in the Years 1943-1974 for Corrections to the Constants in Brown’s Theory, the Right Ascension System of the FK4, and Watts’ Lunar-Profile Datum”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 187 (1979), 41-82 [ADS link].

Schmadel, Lutz D. & Zech, G., “Polynomial Approximations for the Correction ΔT = E.T. – U.T. in the Period 1800-1975”, Acta Astronomica, 29 (1979), 101-104 [ADS link] = Mitteilungen des Astronomischen Rechen-Instituts Heidelberg, Serie A, nr. ??.

Morrison, Leslie V., “An Analysis of Total Lunar Occultations made in the Years 1943 to 1974”, The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 91 (1980), 14-24 [ADS link].

Morrison, Leslie V. & Stephenson, Francis Richard, “Determination of “decade” fluctuations in the Earth’s Rotation 1620-1978”, in: E.M. Gaposchkin & B. Kolaczek (eds.), Reference Coordinate Systems for Earth Dynamics: Proceedings of the 56th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Warsaw, Poland, September 8-12, 1980 (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publ. Co., 1981 [= Astrophysics and Space Science Library, nr. 86]), pp. 181-185 [not seen].

Stephenson, Francis Richard & Houlden, Michael A., “The Accuracy of Tuckerman’s Solar and Planetary Tables”, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 12 (1981), 133-138 [ADS link].

Hansen, K.S., “Secular Effects of Oceanic Tidal Dissipation of the Moon’s Orbit and the Earth’s Rotation”, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, 20 (1982), 457-480 [ADS link].

Meeus, Jean, Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1982), 2nd ed., chapter 5.

Morrison, Leslie V. & Stephenson, Francis Richard, “Secular and Decade Fluctuations in the Earth’s Rotation: 700 BC - AD 1978”, in: W. Fricke & G. Teleki (eds.), Sun and Planetary System: Proceedings of the Sixth European Regional Meeting in Astronomy, Held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 19-23 October 1981 (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publ. Co., 1982 [= Astrophysics and Space Science Library, nr. 96]), pp. 173-178.

Webb, D.J., “On the Reduction of Tidal Dissipation produced by Increases in the Earth’s Rotation Rate and its Effect on the Long-Term History of the Moon’s Orbit”, in: P. Brosche & J. Sundermann (eds.), Tidal Friction and the Earth’s Rotation II: Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld, September 28 - October 3, 1981 (Berlin/New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982), pp. 210-??? [ADS link].

Stephenson, Francis Richard & Morrison, Leslie V., “Long-Term Changes in the Rotation of the Earth: 700 B.C. to A.D. 1980”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Ser. A, 313 (1984), 47-70 [JSTOR link].

Krasinsky, G.A., Saramonova, E.Y., Sveshnikov, M.L. & Sveshnikova, E.S., “Universal Time, Lunar Tidal Deceleration and Relativistic Effects from Observations of Transits, Eclipses and Occultations in the XVIII-XX Centuries”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 145 (1985), 90-96 [ADS link].

Bretagnon, Pierre & Simon, Jean-Louis, Planetary Programs and Tables from –4000 to +2800 (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1986).

Houlden, Michael A. & Stephenson, Francis Richard, A Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986 [= Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, nr. 170]).

Stephenson, Francis Richard & Houlden, Michael A., Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps: East Asia 1500 BC – AD 1900 (Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. ix-xi.

McCarthy, Dennis D. & Babcock, Alice Kay, “The Length of Day since 1656”, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 44 (1986), 281-292 [ScienceDirect link].

Espenak, Fred, Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986 – 2035 (Washington: NASA, 1987 [= NASA Reference Publication, nr. 1178 Revised]).

Kushner, David, “The Controversy surrounding the Secular Acceleration on the Moon’s Mean Motion”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 39 (1988), 291-316 [Springer link].

Meeus, Jean, Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 198?), 3rd ed., chapter ? [not seen].

Meeus, Jean, Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1988), 4th ed., chapter ? [not seen].

Espenak, Fred, Fifty Year Canon of Lunar Eclipses: 1986 – 2035 (Washington: NASA, 1989 [= NASA Reference Publication, nr. 1216]).

Chapront-Touzé, Michelle & Chapront, Jean, “ELP 2000-85: A Semi-Analytical Lunar Ephemeris Adequate for Historical Times”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 190 (1988), 342-352 [ADS link].

Stephenson, Francis Richard & Lieske, Jay H., “Changes in the Earth’s Rate of Rotation between A.D. 1672 and 1806 as deduced from Solar Eclipse Timings”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 200 (1988), 218-224 [ADS link].

Borkowski, Kazimierz M., “ELP 2000-85 and the Dynamical Time – Universal Time Relation”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 205 (1988), L8-L10 [ADS link].

Schmadel, Lutz D. & Zech, G., “Emperical Transformations from U.T. to E.T. for the Period 1800 – 1988”, Astronomische Nachrichten, 309 (1988), 219-221 [ADS link].

Montenbruck, Oliver, Practical Ephemeris Calculations (Berlin [etc.]: Springer-Verlag, 1989), pp. 35-37 [not seen].

Montenbruck, Oliver & Pfleger, Thomas, Astronomy on the Personal Computer (Berlin [etc.]: Springer-Verlag, 1990), pp. ??-?? & ??? [not seen].

Standish, E. Myles, “The Observational Basis for JPL’s DE 200, the Planetary Ephemerides of the Astronomical Almanac”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 233 (1990), 252-271 [ADS link].

Chapront-Touzé, Michelle & Chapront, Jean, Lunar Tables and Programs from 4000 B.C. to A.D. 8000 (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1991), pp. 6-7.

Hide, Raymond & Dickey, Jean O., “Earth’s Variable Rotation”, Science, new series, 253 (1991), 629-637 [JSTOR link].

Meeus, Jean, Astronomical Algorithms (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1991), chapter 9.

Seidelmann, P.K. (ed.), Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (Sausalito: University Science Books, 1992), chapters 2 & 4.

Dickey, Jean O., Bender, P.L., Faller, J.E., Newhall, X.X., Ricklefs, R.L., Ries, J.G., Shelus, P.J., Veillet, C., Whipple, A.L., Wiant, J.R., Williams, James G. & Yoder, Charles F., “Lunar Laser Ranging: A Continuing Legacy of the Apollo Program”, Science, new series, 265 (1994), 482-490 [nr. 5171] [JSTOR lnik].

Jordi, Carme, Morrison, Leslie V., Rosen, R.D., Salstein, D.A. & Rosselló, G., “Fluctuations in the Earth’s Rotation since 1830 from High-Resolution Astronomical Data”, Geophysical Journal International, 117 (1994), 811-818.

Montenbruck, Oliver & Pfleger, Thomas, Astronomy on the Personal Computer (Berlin [etc.]: Springer-Verlag, 1994), 2nd ed., pp. 41-45 & 187 [not seen].

Montenbruck, Oliver & Pfleger, Thomas, Astronomy on the Personal Computer (Berlin [etc.]: Springer-Verlag, 199?), 3rd ed., pp. ??-?? & ??? [not seen].

Dickey, Jean O., “Earth Rotation Variations from Hours to Centuries”, in: I. Appenzeller (ed.), Highlights of Astronomy: Vol. 10 (Dordrecht [etc.]: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 17-44.

Stephenson, Francis Richard & Morrison, Leslie V., “Long-Term Fluctuations in the Earth’s Rotation: 700 BC to AD 1990”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Ser. A, 351 (1995), 165-202 [JSTOR link].

Chapront, Jean, Chapront-Touzé, Michelle & Francou, Gerard, Nouvelles expressions des termes séculaires dans Lunar Tables and Programs from 4000 B.C. to A.D. 8000 (Paris: Bureau des Longitudes, 1997 [= Notes Scientifiques et Techniques du Bureau des Longitudes, nr. S055]).

Stephenson, Francis Richard, Jones, J.E. & Morrison, Leslie V., “The Solar Eclipse Observed by Clavius in A.D. 1567”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 322 (1997), 347-351 [ADS link].

Stephenson, Francis Richard, Historical Eclipses and Earth’s Rotation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Meeus, Jean, Astronomical Algorithms (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1998), 2nd ed., chapter 10.

Meeus, Jean, “The Effect of Delta T on Astronomical Calculations”, The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 108 (1998), 154-156 [ADS link] – reprinted in Meeus, More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 2002), chapter 68.

Stephenson, Francis Richard, “Historical Eclipses and the Rotation of the Earth”, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 23 (1998), 715-724 [ScienceDirect link].

Chapront, Jean, Chapront-Touzé, Michelle & Francou, Gerard, “Determination of the Lunar Orbital and Rotational Parameters and of the Ecliptic Reference System Orientation from LLR Measurements and IERS Data”, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 343 (1999), 624-633 [ADS link].

Huber, Peter J., “Modeling the Length of Day and Extrapolating the Rotation of the Earth”, in: F. Bònoli, S. De Meis & A. Panaino (eds.), Astronomical Amusements: Papers in Honor of Jean Meeus (Milan: IsIAO/Mimesis, 2000), pp. 91-104.

Huber, Peter J., “Astronomy and Ancient Chronology”, in: J.A. Armstrong & D.A. Warburton (eds.), Just in Time: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Ancient Near Eastern Chronology (2nd Millennium BC), Ghent 7-9 July 2000 (Brussels: Fondation Assyriologique George Dossin, 2000 [= Akkadica: Périodique bimestriel de la Fondation Assyriologique Georges Dossin, 119/120]), pp. 159-176.

Meeus, Jean & Simons, Larry, “Polynomial Approximations to Delta T, 1620-2000 AD”, The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 110 (2000), 323-324 [ADS link].

Montenbruck, Oliver & Pfleger, Thomas, Astronomy on the Personal Computer (Berlin [etc.]: Springer-Verlag, 2000), 4th ed., pp. 41-44 & 187-188.

Gross, Richard S., “A Combined Length-of-Day Series spanning 1832-1997: LUNAR 97”, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 123 (2001), 65-76 [ScienceDirect link].

Morrison, Leslie V. & Stephenson, Francis Richard, “Historical Eclipses and the Variability of the Earth’s Rotation”, Journal of Geodynamics, 32 (2001), 247-265 [ScienceDirect link].

Nelson, R.A., McCarthy, Dennis D., Malys, S., Levine, J., Guinot, B., Fliegel, H.F., Beard, R.L. & Bartholomew, T.R., “The Leap Second: Its History and Possible Future”, Metrologia, 38 (2001), 509-529 [??? link].

Reingold, Edward M. & Dershowitz, Nachum, Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Williams, James G., Boggs, Dale H., Yoder, Charles F., Ratcliff, J. Todd & Dickey, Jean O., “Lunar Rotational Dissipation in Solid Body and Molten Core”, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), 106 (2001), 27933-27968 [ADS link].

De Meis, Salvo, Eclipses: An Astronomical Introduction for Humanists (Rome: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, 2002 [= Serie Orientale Roma, nr. XCVI]).

Reingold, Edward M. & Dershowitz, Nachum, Calendrical Tabulations 1900-2200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Morrison, Leslie V. & Stephenson, Francis Richard, “Historical Values of the Earth’s Clock Error ΔT and the Calculation of Eclipses”, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 35 (2004), 327-336 [ADS link] – addendum in ibid., 36 (2005), 339 [ADS link].

Tanikawa, Kiyotaka & Sôma, Mitsuru, “On the Totality of the Eclipse in AD 628 in the Nihongi”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 56 (2004), 215-224 [ADS link] – errata in ibid., 56 (2004), 1127 [ADS link].

Kawabata, Kin-Aki, Tanikawa, Kiyotaka & Sôma, Mitsuru, “A Solar Eclipse Versified in the Shijing”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 56 (2004), 869-877 [ADS link].

Tanikawa, Kiyotaka & Sôma, Mitsuru, “ΔT and the Tidal Acceleration of the Lunar Motion from Eclipses Observed at Plural Sites”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 56 (2004), 879-885 [ADS link].

Espenak, Fred & Meeus, Jean, Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: –1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 BCE) (Hanover [MD]: NASA STI Program Office, 2006 [= NASA/TP-2006-214141]).

Stephenson, Francis Richard, “How Reliable are Archaic Records of Large Solar Eclipses?”, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 39 (2008), 229-250 [ADS link].

Sana, Islam, Muhammad, Sadiq & Shahid, Qureshi Muhammad, “Error Minimization of Polynomial Approximation of Delta T”, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 29 (2009), 363-366 [ADS link].

Tanikawa, Kiyotaka, Yamamoto, Tadato & Sôma, Mitsuru, “Solar Eclipses in the First Half of the Chunqiu Period”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 62 (2010), 797-809 [ADS link].