Overview
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J. Derral Mulholland
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University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Creighton A. Burk
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University of Texas Marine Science Institute, USA
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Eric C. Silverberg
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University of Texas McDonald Observatory, USA
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Table of contents (31 papers)
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Geophysics and Geodesy
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- P. L. Bender, J. E. Faller
Pages 167-167
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Observation of Earth Rotation
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Front Matter
Pages 169-169
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- A. W. Harris, J. G. Williams
Pages 179-190
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- Peter J. Shelus, J. D. Mulholland, Steven W. Evans
Pages 191-200
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- Artur Stolz, Douglas Larden
Pages 201-216
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- R. W. King, T. A. Clark, C. C. Counselman III, D. S. Robertson, I. I. Shapiro, C. A. Knight
Pages 219-220
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Complementary Observations
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Front Matter
Pages 221-221
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- Eduard Berg, George H. Sutton
Pages 263-275
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- James E. Faller, Judah Levine
Pages 277-283
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- Charles C. Counselman III
Pages 285-286
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- M. A. Slade, W. S. Sinclair, A. W. Harris, R. A. Preston, J. G. Williams
Pages 287-287
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Back Matter
Pages 303-305
About this book
The progress of science during the past centuries has been in some measure energized by the development of new technologies. People are no more intelligent now than they were five centuries ago, or indeed five millenia ago. The differences are in the pool of past experience and the availability of means for manipulating the physical and mental environment. Until fairly recently, the development of new technologies in astronomy and geodesy has served primarily either to broaden the scope of phenomena that could be studied or to improve the precision with which one could examine already-studied phenomena. There seemed to be no likelihood that a situation could arise similar to that in particle physics, where the uncertainty principle indicates that the observation of the state of an object alters that state, affecting the observation. Indeed, we have not yet reached that point, but certain of the new techniques have introduced a degree of complication and inter dependence perhaps not previously encountered in the macro sciences. When observational capability is so fine that the data can be corrupted by the tidal motions of the instruments, for example, then there are a myriad of physical effects that must be considered in analyzing the data; the happy aspect of this is that the data can be used to study exactly these same effects. The complication does not, however, extend only to predictive computations against which the data are compared.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Texas at Austin, USA
J. Derral Mulholland
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University of Texas Marine Science Institute, USA
Creighton A. Burk
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University of Texas McDonald Observatory, USA
Eric C. Silverberg