Robert Russell Newton
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| Robert Russell Newton | |
| Born | c. 1920 |
|---|---|
| Died | 1991 |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Fields | physics, astronomy, science historian |
| Institutions | Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University |
| Known for | The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy |
Robert Russell Newton, also R. R. Newton (c. 1920 - 1991) American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science. Newton was Supervisor of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Newton was most famous for his book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy, in which he demonstrated that many of the astronomical observations in Ptolemy's ancient text The Almagest were computed from theory rather than being actually observed.
[edit] Bibliography
- "Periodic orbits of a planetoid passing close to two gravitating masses" (1959). Smithsonian Contribution to Astrophysics 3: 69.
- (1970) Ancient astronomical observations and the accelerations of the earth and moon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- (1972) Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- (1976) Ancient planetary observations and the validity of ephemeris time. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- (1977) The crime of Claudius Ptolemy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- (1979) The moon's acceleration and its physical origins ... Vol 1: as deduced from solar eclipses. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
[edit] External links
- "The Ptruth About Ptolemy" (November 28, 1977). TIME magazine.
- Evans, J. (May 1993). "Essay Review: The Origins of Ptolemy's Astronomical Tables, by Robert R. Newton": p.145.
- Newton, Robert R.. "The Scholarly Integrity of Book Reviews" (PDF). DIO 1.1: pp. 30–48.
- Newton, Robert R. (1974). "Two Uses of Ancient Astronomy". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Land. A. 276: 99–110. doi:.
- Hugh Thurston's 1998 condensation of R. Newton's 1977 Crime of Claudius Ptolemy. DIO 8.1 pp.3-17. PDF.
