Applications of lunar theory have included the following:
• In the eighteenth century, comparison between lunar theory and … 展开

Babylon
Of Babylonian astronomy, practically nothing was known to historians of science before the 1880s. Surviving ancient writings of Pliny had made bare mention of three astronomical schools in Mesopotamia 展开

The main aim of Newton's successors, from Leonhard Euler, Alexis Clairaut and Jean d'Alembert in the mid-eighteenth century, down to Ernest William Brown in the late nineteenth and … 展开

• 'AE 1871': "Nautical Almanac & Astronomical Ephemeris" for 1871, (London, 1867).
• E W Brown … 展开

The Moon has been observed for millennia. Over these ages, various levels of care and precision have been possible, according to the techniques of observation available at any time. … 展开

A first gravitational period for lunar theory started with the work of Newton. He was the first to define the problem of the perturbed motion of the … 展开

Digital computers and lunar laser ranging
Since the Second World War and especially since the 1960s, lunar theory has been further developed in a somewhat different way. This has … 展开