The ''Canon of Eclipses'' (German Canon der Finsternisse), published in 1887 at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer, is a compilation of over 13000 (8000 solar and 5200 lunar)

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s, including all

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and all umbral

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eclipses between the years 1208 BC and 2161 CE.von Oppolzer, Th. ''Canon der Finsternisse''. Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei ''Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien'', Math.-naturw. Kl., Bd. 52 repr. with preface by

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and English translation of the introduction by Owen Gingerich, New York: Dover Publications, 1962. It was republished by Dover Books in 1962.

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1887 Original German edition
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