Ancient Chinese observations of planetary positions and a table of planetary occultations

✍ Scribed by Liu Ciyuan

• Book ID: 104624503
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 428 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0794
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00056020

✦ Synopsis

Ancient Chinese records of observations of planetary positions are introduced and classified. A table which includes 66 records of planetary occultations is given in this paper. Those ancient records are valuable for research on the secular motions of planets.