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Solar eclipses during the Former Han period / Homer H. Dubs.
Dubs, Homer H.Date: 1938
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The calculation of solar eclipses without parallaxes. With a specimen of the same in the total eclipse of the sun, May 11. 1724. Now first made Publick. To which is added, A Proposal how, with the Latitude given, the Geographical Longitude of all the Parts of the Earth may be settled by the bare Knowledge of the Duration of Solar Eclipses, and especially of Total Darkness. With An Account of some late Observations made with Dipping Needles, in order to discover the Longitude and Latitude at Sea. By Will. Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1724
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The copernicus explain'd: or a brief account of the nature and use of an universal astronomical instrument, for the calculation and exhibition of new and full moons, and of eclipses, both Solar and Lunar; with the Places Heliocentrical and Geocentrical of all the Planets, Primary and Secondary, &c. By William Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1715
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A companion, or supplement, to the ladies' diary, for the year 1790. Containing calculations and types of the eclipses of this year; and a curious List of all the Solar Eclipses visible till the Year 2000. With many additional Solutions to the Enigmas, Rebuses, Charades, Queries, and Questions, for which there was not room in the Diary itself; with some New Rebuses, Charades, Queries and Mathematical Questions, to be answered next year. By the Diary author.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: 1789]
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Prodromos ekleipsis. Being a philosophical dissertation on the doctrine of eclipses. Explaining the physical cause thereof in each luminary. With a Perfect Account of the Time, Quantity, and Manner of Appearance of those very remarkable Eclipses that will happen on September the 9th, and February the 18th, next. Also a few words on the Pythagorean system; Wherein is demonstrated the Heliocentrick and Geocentrick Motions of the Planets, and the true Cause of their Retrogradation; particularly the Planet Mercury, at the Middle of the great Solar Eclipse. With an enquiry into the nature and laws of comets; And whether we may expect the speedy Appearance Of One. By Thomas Frankz, M.D.
Frankz, Thomas.Date: MDCCXXXVI. 1736

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