327. We shall subjoin a catalogue of Eclipses recorded in history, from 721 years before Christ to A. D. 1485; of computed Eclipses from 1485 to 1700; and of all the Eclipses visible in Europe from 1700 to 1800. From the beginning of the catalogue to A.D. 1485 the Eclipses are taken from Struyk’s Introduction to universal Geography, as that indefatigable author has, with much labour, collected them from Ptolemy, Thucydides, Plutarch, Calvisius, Xenophon, Diodorus Siculus, Justin, Polybius, Titus Livius, Cicero, Lucanus, Theophanes, Dion Cassius, and many others. From 1485 to 1700 the Eclipses are taken from Ricciolus’s Almagest: and from 1700 to 1800 from L’art de verifier les Dates[[73]]. Those from Struyk have all the places mentioned where they were observed: Those from the French authors, viz. the religious Benedictines of the Congregation of St. Maur, are fitted to the Meridian of Paris: And concerning those from Ricciolus, that author gives the following account.
Because it is of great use for fixing the Cycles or Revolutions of Eclipses, to have at hand, without the trouble of calculation, a list of successive Eclipses for many years, computed by authors of Ephemerides, although from Tables not perfect in all respects, I shall for the benefit of Astronomers give a summary collection of such. The authors I extract from are, an anonymous one who published Ephemerides from 1484 to 1506 inclusive; Jacobus Pflaumen and Jo. Stæflerinus, to the Meridian of Ulm, from 1507 to 1534: Lucas Gauricus, to the Latitude of 45 degrees, from 1534 to 1551: Peter Appian, to the Meridian of Leysing, from 1538 to 1578: Jo. Stæflerus to the Meridian of Tubing, from 1543 to 1554: Petrus Pitatus, to the Meridian of Venice from 1544 to 1556: Georgius-Joachimus Rheticus, for the year 1551: Nicholaus Simus, to the Meridian of Bologna, from 1552 to 1568: Michael Mæstlin, to the Meridian of Tubing, from 1557 to 1590: Jo. Stadius, to the Meridian of Antwerp, from 1554 to 1574: Jo. Antoninus Maginus, to the Meridian of Venice, from 1581 to 1630: David Origan, to the Meridian of Franckfort on the Oder, from 1595 to 1664: Andrew Argol, to the Meridian of Rome, from 1630 to 1700: Franciscus Montebrunus, to the Meridian of Bologna, from 1461 to 1660: Among which, Stadius, Mæstlin, and Maginus, used the Prutenic Tables; Origan the Prutenic and Tychonic; Montebrunus the Lansbergian, as likewise those of Duret. Almost all the rest the Alphonsine.
But, that the places may readily be known for which these Eclipses were computed, and from what Tables, consult the following list, in which the years inclusive are also set down.
| From 1485 | to | 1506 | The place and author unknown. |
| 1507 | 1553 | Ulm in Suabia, from the Alphonsine. | |
| 1554 | 1576 | Antwerp, from the Prutenic. | |
| 1577 | 1585 | Tubing, from the Prutenic. | |
| 1586 | 1594 | Venice, from the Prutenic. | |
| 1595 | 1600 | Franckfort on Oder, from the Prutenic. | |
| 1601 | 1640 | Franckfort on Oder, from the Tychonic. | |
| 1641 | 1660 | Bologna, from the Lansbergian. | |
| 1661 | 1700 | Rome, from the Tychonic. |
So far Ricciolus.
N. B. The Eclipses marked with an Asterisk are not in Ricciolus’s catalogue; but are supplied from L’art de verifier les Dates.
From the beginning of the catalogue to A. D. 1700, the time is reckoned from the noon of the day mentioned to the noon of the following day; but from 1700 to 1800 the time is set down according to our common way of reckoning. Those marked Pekin and Canton are Eclipses from the Chinese chronology according to Struyk; and throughout the Table this mark
Struyk’s Catalogue of ECLIPSES.