Needed: history of equation of time

2000-11-27 Thread Gordon Uber
recommend a reference (preferably in English) on the subject? I understand that John Flamsteed and Christiaan Huygens published tables of it in 1666 and 1662, respectively. If anyone has copies of these tables, the tables (or citations to them) would be greatly appreciated. So far I have

Re: Needed: history of equation of time

2000-11-27 Thread John Davis
Hi Gordon, According to my research for the Sundial Glossary, Huygens was the first to publish an accurate EoT table in 1665, and he republished this in his Horologium Oscillatorium in 1673. Flamsteed calculated the first accurate English table in 1665, when he was only 19, but it was not