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13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. S. Newcomb, Astronomy for Schools and Colleges (New York: Henry Holt, 1879).
17. S. Newcomb, Popular Astronomy, School Edition (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896).
18. S. Newcomb, Researches on the Motion of the Moon (Washington, DC: Government Printing
Office, 1878).
19. Ibid.
20. P. H. Cowell, “Note on the Astronomical Value of Ancient Eclipses, Reply to the Above
Note, ” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 66 (1905): 35-36.
21. Ibid.
22. S. Newcomb, Researches on the Motion of the Moon .
23. P. H. Cowell, “ On Ancient Eclipses, ” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 66
(1906): 523-542. Cowell wrote numerous letters to Newcomb begging the American to be
more flexible in matters of interpretation. See Container 20, Simon Newcomb Papers, Manu-
script Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
24. R. R. Newton, Ancient Planetary Observations and theValidity of Ephemeris Time (Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) and The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1977).
25. R. R. Newton, Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Accelerations of the Earth and Moon and
Medieval Chronicles and the Rotation of the Earth (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1970).
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. R. R. Newton, “ Two Uses of Ancient Astronomy, ” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
of London A 276 (1974): 99-110.
29. R. R. Newton, The Moon's Acceleration and Its Physical Origins,Volume 1, as Deduced from Solar
Eclipses (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).
30. Newton, Ancient Astronomical Observations .
31. Ibid.
32. Newton, Ancient Planetary Observations .