Local Records of Solar Eclipse in the Ming Dynasty
Abstract
Numerous celestial events were recorded in local annals and private works that emerged in the mid-Ming Dynasty. The records of solar eclipse are an important part of these records, and they focused on a vivid description of total solar eclipses and different geographical distributions. There were 15 central solar eclipses occurred in the eastern China in the Ming Dynasty. Among the 10 central solar eclipses that occurred in the late Ming Dynasty, 8 of them were recorded in a large number of local annals and private works. The paper analyzed the main features of these solar eclipses, demonstrated the distribution of the observation sites of the 8 total solar eclipses throughout the country, and discussed the vivid description of these total solar eclipses.
- Publication:
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Acta Astronomica Sinica
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AcASn..60...29M
- Keywords:
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- history of astronomy;
- solar eclipses;
- the Ming Dynasty;
- local annals and private works