Owen Brazell,

Thanks, Owen, but Richard Mallett very kindly posted the location. I really
would like to see the translation of the tablets, though. Would it be very
inconvenient to email a copy of them to me, if they aren't too long?

There is another eclipse I've been trying to chase down without enough
information. 6 or 8 years ago, I was talking on the phone with someone at
an astronomy SW company (don't remember which) about the difficulty of
pinning down eclipses. He told me there was "an eclipse which was pretty
solid because it was observed in 600 from a small island in the Caribbean."
He didn't say if it was B.C. or A.D. I've looked with Guide, but there just
isn't enough information. Would you see if it's in Stephenson's book?

Thanks,
Larry

>At 10:00 PM 6/14/01 +0100, you wrote:
>I have my own copy of this book which describes the eclipse of 136BC what
>information would you like from it. The caption from the plate gives a
>full translation of the tablet on which the eclipse is described.
>
>At 08:50 13/06/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>>In message <3.0.6.32.20010612100353.007b7100@127.0.0.1>, Laren Dart
>><ldart@...> writes
>>>I'm looking for ancient solar eclipses which were observed and recorded
>>>at sites which are very definitely known, but which did not happen
>>>according to modern theory. Example: there was an eclipse at Babylon in
>>>136 B.C. but the closest I can pin down the location of Babylon is
>>>"near" el Hillah, Iraq. "Near" won't cut it. And also, was it observed
>>>in Babylon itself, or somewhere" in Babylonia? Exact locations are the

hardest part! (Does Stephenson's book have them?)

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