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The Regular Records of Solar Eclipse in Ancient China and a Computer Readable Table

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There were numerous records of solar eclipse in China from the eighth century BC to the fifteenth century AD. Because these records are concise and formalized, I have arranged 938 items into a computer-readable table called ‘‘The table of historic Chinese regular records of solar eclipse’’. In this paper, I explain the structure of the table with a preliminary analysis and statistics of the historical records. To receive the table itself, please request it at liucy@ntsc.ac.cn.

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  1. National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lintong Shaanxi, 710600, P.R. China

    Ciyuan Liu

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Communicated by N. Swerdlow

Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19973012).

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Liu, C. The Regular Records of Solar Eclipse in Ancient China and a Computer Readable Table. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 59, 157–168 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-004-0079-4

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