Robert Russell Newton was an American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science.
Newton was Supervisor of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.
Newton was known for his book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy. In Newton's... Wikipedia
Born: July 7, 1918, Tennessee
Died: June 2, 1991 (age 72 years), Silver Spring, MD
Books
The crime of Claudius Ptolemy
1977
Periodic Orbits of a Planetoid Passing Close to Two Gravitating Masses: Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics, V3, No. 7
Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the earth
1972
The Moon's Acceleration and Its Physical Origins
1979
The Origins of Ptolemy's Astronomical Tables
1982
Ancient Planetary Observations and the Validity of Ephemeris Time
1976