Abstract
In the preceding chapters of this part an outline has been given of the theory of the Moon’s motion in space as well as about its own center of gravity. This motion affects, of course, vitally most observational manifestations of our satellite; and the most elementary aspect of these are the conditions of illumination of the Moon by the Sun and the Earth — i.e., the phases of the Moon — which we shall now proceed to describe.
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The subject matter discussed in this section is largely classical. For the geometrical formulae governing the illumination of the Moon cf., e.g., Graff (1901). For the theory of lunar eclipses and their predictions standard source remains still Th. v. Oppolzer’s Canon der Finsternisse (1887), which recently became available in an English translation by O. Gingerich (Dover Publ., New York, 1962). For a more detailed account of the mathematical methods by which the Greek scholars of the Alexandrian period attempted to determine the distance of the Moon, cf., e.g., Dreyer (1906), pp.183–185.
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Kopal, Z. (1966). Photometric Consequences of the Moon’s Motion: Phases and Eclipses. In: An Introduction to the Study of the Moon. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6320-2_5
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