Note 69 — Chapter IV · Sequel to the Epoch of Newton, continued.—Verification and Completion of the Newtonian Theory.
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Mr. Baily* says that Mayer’s
Nouvelles Tables de la Lune
in
1753
, published upwards of fifty years after Gregory’s
Astronomy
, may be considered as the first lunar tables formed
solely
on Newton’s principles. Though Wright in 1732 published
New and Correct Tables of the Lunar Motions according to the Newtonian Theory
, Newton’s rules were in them only partially adopted. In 1735 Leadbetter published his
Uranoscopia
, in which those rules were more fully followed. But these
Newtonian Tables
did not supersede Flamsteed’s Horroxian Tables, till both were supplanted by those of Mayer.
*Supp. p. 702.