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| | Kollerstrom's Newton's Lunar Theory in STS@UCL (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Halley drew up his version of the theory around 1720, and used it while he was Astronomer Royal, but it was only published posthumously in 1749, by which time it was out-of-date. |
 | | In mid-eighteenth century France, the most widely used (lunar) tables were those of Halley and LeMonnier, according to the historian D'Alembert (1754, p. |
 | | The first TMM-based calculation on record was published in the Philosophical Transactions of 1710, by 'the Reverend Mr H. Cressner, M.A., Fellow of the Royal Society.' Cressner compared this with a computation based on Flamsteed's theory as published by William Whiston, which method he called, 'Horroxian'. |
| www.ucl.ac.uk /sts/nk/whoused.htm (278 words) |
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