This 1986 book presents a series of computer-drawn maps and tables
for all total and annular eclipses of the Sun calculated to have
been observable in East Asia in the 3400 years from 1500 BC to AD
1900. The study of past eclipses is a useful tool in both
geophysics and chronology, for example in determining the long-term
behaviour of the Earth's rate of rotation. The eclipses of the Sun
that occurred in East Asia - notably in China, Korea and Japan -
are particularly useful because numerous reliable written records
of them are extant. The book will be of interest to professional
astronomers whose work can benefit from long-term historical data,
especially those interested in studying the Earth's rotation and to
historians of Chinese astronomy. It will be an essential reference
work for research libraries.
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