Early Chinese Observations of Occultations of Planets by the Moon

For a detailed discussion, see Stephenson F. R. , Historical eclipses and Earth's rotation (Cambridge, 1997).

See, for example, Stephenson F. R. , “A suspected supernova in AD 1181”, Quarterly journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , xii (1971), 10–38; Kiang T. , “On the date used in Chinese historical annals when recording observations made during the latter half of the night”, Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society , lxxxvi (1981), 100–20.

Yoke Ho Peng , The astronomical chapters of the Chin Shu (Paris, 1966).

Beijing Observatory, Zhongguo gudai tianxiang jilu (A union table of ancient Chinese records of celestial phenomena) (Kiangxu, 1988).

Chung-San Hsueh Ou-Yang I. , A Sino-western calendar for two thousand years (Beijing, 1956).

Stephenson , op. cit. (ref. 2).

Stephenson F. R. , “Some geophysical, astrophysical and chronological deductions from early astronomical records”, Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1972.

Morrison L. V. Stephenson F. R. , “Historical values of the Earth's rotational clock error ΔT and the calculation of eclipses”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xxxv (2004), 327–36.

Williams J. G. Dickey J. O. , “Lunar geophysics, geodesy and dynamics”, in Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Lunar Laser Ranging (Washington, DC, 2003), 75–86.

See for example, Stephenson , op. cit. (ref. 1); Foley N. , “A statistical study of the solar eclipses recorded in Chinese and Korean history during the pre-telescopic era”, M.Sc. thesis, University of Durham, 1989).

Stephenson , op. cit. (ref. 2).

Kiang , op. cit. (ref. 2).

Morrison Stephenson , op. cit. (ref. 8).

Morrison Stephenson , op. cit. (ref. 8).

Stephenson , op. cit. (ref. 1).

Morrison Stephenson , op. cit. (ref. 8).

Soma M. Tanikawa K. , “Investigation of the Earth's rotation using ancient Chinese occultation records”, in Nakamura T. (eds), Mapping the Oriental sky (Tokyo, 2011), 64–6.