British astronomer and physicist
F. Richard Stephenson (born Francis Richard Stephenson , 26 April 1941) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Durham , in the Physics department and the East Asian Studies department. His research concentrates on historical aspects of astronomy , in particular analyzing ancient astronomical records to reconstruct the history of Earth's rotation . He has an asteroid named after him: 10979 Fristephenson .
Bibliography
David H. Clark [fr ] & F. Richard Stephenson, The Historical supernovae , Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977, 233 pages, ISBN 0080209149 F. Richard Stephenson & David H. Clark, Applications of Early Astronomical Records , Oxford University Press , 1979, 124 pages, ISBN 0-19-520122-1
Hermann Hunger , Christopher B. F. Walker , Richard Stephenson & Kevin K. C. Yau , Halley's Comet in History , British Museum Press , 1985, 64 pages, ISBN 0-7141-1118-X F. Richard Stephenson, Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables , American Philosophical Society , 1986, 564 pages, ISBN 0-87169-170-1
F. Richard Stephenson & M. A. Houlden , Atlas of historical eclipse maps. East Asia 1500 BC-AD 1900 , Cambridge University Press , 1986, ISBN 9780521106948
F. Richard Stephenson, "The identification of early returns of comet Halley from ancient astronomical records", p. 203 - 214 in Comet Halley. Investigations, results, interpretations, Vol. 2 , Prentice Hall , 1990
F. Richard Stephenson, Astronomical Observations from the Ancient Orient , Prentice Hall , 1990, 350 pages, ISBN 0-7458-0285-0
F. Richard Stephenson, Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation , Cambridge University Press , 1997, 573 pages, ISBN 0-521-46194-4
F. Richard Stephenson & David A. Green , Historical supernovae and their remnants , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, 252 p., ISBN 0198507666
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