2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The history of editing Nautical Almanac with the documentation survey of Hydrographic Department of the Navy era

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22500961
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology/History of science and technology
Research Institution	University of Yamanashi
Principal Investigator	TAKAHASHI Tomoko 山梨大学, 大学院・医学工学総合研究部, 准教授 (70282019)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	高度方位暦 / 海軍 / 水路部 / 航海暦 / 航空暦 / ナビゲーション / 天文航法
Research Abstract	I went to the documentation surveyof Hydrographic Department of the Navy era, which has been kept non-organized at Oceanographic Department of the Japan Coast Guard. As a result, it was possible to discover the "Altitude Azimuth Almanac" was unidentified ever. It made possible the creation of this almanac that requires an enormous amount of calculation, there were efforts of astronomers of the Ephemeris Calculation Office to estimate its own ephemeris itself, has devised a method of calculation. I made it clear that history. I also discussed the characteristics of the research of astronomers made among the military.

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