The Eclipse of 21 June 1629 in Beijing in the Context of the Reform of the Chinese Calendar
Sperello di Serego Alighieri, Elisabetta Corsi. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 23, 2020, 327-334.
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Issue 2. The DOI is the arXiv deposit of the published text, which is the version read here; the journal itself issues no article DOIs. Compares the three predictions of the 1629 eclipse recorded by Xu Guangqi against a modern reconstruction, and treats the outcome as the occasion of the Chongzhen calendar reform.
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- The Astronomical Bureau and the Calendar Case
- For the eclipse of 21 June 1629, the three competing predictions, the commission of the reform to Xu Guangqi, and the length of the Jesuit tenure in the bureau.