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Solar eclipses during the Former Han period / Homer H. Dubs.
Dubs, Homer H.Date: 1938- Books
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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- Books
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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]- Books
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The coelestial diary: or, An ephemeris for the year of Our Blessed Saviour's incarnation 1743. Being the third after bissextile, or leap-year, and from the creation of the world, according to the best of history, 5692 years. Wherein is contained the motions, aspects, and operations of the planets; with observations on the eclipses and Solar ingresses; with other remarkable passages, as the moon's southing, sun and moon's rising and setting, and monthly observations, in a poetical manner, the like not extant, &c. Calculated according to art, and referred to the meridian of the middle of Great Britain, fitting the whole monarchy without sensible error. The twenty fifth impression. By Salem Pearse, student in physick and the cœlestial sciences.
Pearse, Salem, active 1719.Date: [1743]- Books
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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