`Rich in scholarship-invaluable to scholars studying the first milennium AD; highly recommended.' ChoiceEclipses and comets can now be precisely dated and are therefore an invaluable aid in checking the chronology of historical records. This study covers the whole world and provides a list of eclipses and comets century by century.

`Rich in scholarship-invaluable to scholars studying the first milennium AD; highly recommended.' ChoiceEclipses and comets can now be precisely dated and are therefore an invaluable aid in checking the chronology of historical records. This study covers the whole world and provides a list of eclipses and comets century by century.