Department of
Science & Technology Studies
University College London

Nicholas Kollerstrom's
Newton's 1702 Lunar Theory

In contrast to the 1732 graph, this 1733 graph shows how, a year later, maximal errors of eight arcminutes started to turn up. Alas we lack any comment from Halley as he faithfully recorded these errors. Actually, Halley's Saros method could have coped quite well with this, as very similar error-values appeared eighteen years and eleven days earlier.

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