| 词条 | Robert Russell Newton |
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|name = Robert Russell Newton |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = July 7, 1918 |birth_place = |death_date = {{D-da|June 2, 1991|July 7, 1918}} |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = United States of America |nationality = |ethnicity = |field = Physics, astronomy, science historian |work_institutions = Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} Robert Russell Newton, also R. R. Newton (July 7, 1918 – June 2, 1991)[1] was an American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science. Newton was Supervisor of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. He was known for his book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (1977). In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton showed that Ptolemy had predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described. Distrust of Ptolemy's observations goes back at least as far as doubts raised in the 16th century by Tycho Brahe and in the 18th Century by Delambre. Arthur Berry made similar remarks in about 1899. R. R. Newton also made a charge of conscious falsification. Newton was also known for his work on change of the rotation rate of the earth, and historical observations of eclipses. Bibliography
|author1=Rosser, J. Barkley |author2=Newton, Robert R. |author3=Gross, George L. |date=1947 |title=Mathematical theory of rocket flight |url=https://archive.org/details/mathematicaltheo033400mbp/page/n7 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Books Company |location=New York }}
|author1=Newton, Robert R. |title=Periodic orbits of a planetoid passing close to two gravitating masses |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics |volume=3 |issue=7 |pages=69–78 |date=1959 |bibcode=1959SCoA....3...69N |doi=10.5479/si.00810231.3-7.69 }}
|title=Ancient astronomical observations and the accelerations of the earth and moon |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=1970 |isbn=978-0-8018-1180-7 }}
|title=Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=1972 |isbn=978-0-8018-1402-0 }}
|title=Ancient planetary observations and the validity of ephemeris time |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=1976 |isbn=978-0-8018-1842-4 }}
|title=The crime of Claudius Ptolemy |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=1977 |isbn=978-0-8018-1990-2 }}
|title=The moon's acceleration and its physical origins ... Vol 1: as deduced from solar eclipses |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=1979 }}
|title=The moon's acceleration and its physical origins ... Vol 2: as deduced from general lunar observations |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=1984 }} External links
|title=The Ptruth About Ptolemy |date=November 28, 1977 |journal=TIME Magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919182,00.html |accessdate=2007-11-18 }}
|author=Evans, J. |title=Essay Review: The Origins of Ptolemy's Astronomical Tables, by Robert R. Newton |page=145 |date=May 1993 |volume=24 |bibcode=1993JHA....24..145E |journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy |doi=10.1177/002182869302400107 }}
|author=Newton, Robert R. |title=The Scholarly Integrity of Book Reviews |journal=DIO |volume=1.1 |pages=30–48 |url=http://www.dioi.org/vols/w11.pdf |format=PDF }}
|accessdate = 2007-11-18 |url = http://www.pereplet.ru/gorm/atext/newton2.htm |author = Newton, Robert R. |title = Two Uses of Ancient Astronomy |journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A |volume = 276 |issue = 1257 |pages = 99–110 |date = 1974 |doi = 10.1098/rsta.1974.0012 |bibcode = 1974RSPTA.276...99N |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090427163614/http://www.pereplet.ru/gorm/atext/newton2.htm |archivedate = 2009-04-27 |df = }}
References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi |title=Social Security Death Index}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, Robert Russell}} 5 : 1918 births|1991 deaths|Johns Hopkins University faculty|20th-century American physicists|American astronomers |
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