摘要
仲康日食大约发生在公元前２０世纪。由于古代文献的真实性方面疑点颇多，记载信息不足，难于确定其发生年代，有时还引起对这个记载是不是日食记录的争议。目前，虽然根据其它可信文献趋同于认定它是日食记录，但确定其发生年代就有１１个不同的结论。该文认同它是６食记录，但对记载语句提出一个新的假定性解释，认为“弗”字可能在远古时代与表示彗星的“”和“拂”是同一个字，或者在书简转抄中把“”（或“拂”）字误为“弗”。如果这个假定成立，经文解释将完全符合于古代天象记录的常规格式，而且“集”和“房”两字在经文中也不需要寻求常规解释外的特别假定性解释。该文还提出了检验这个解释的途径。
The Zhong-kang solar eclipse occurred probably in about the 20th century B. C. . It is very difficult to determine its date because information in the ancient document is in- sufficient and there are many doubts about ancient Chinese historical documents. Sometimes , a few scholars suggest that the Zhong-kang is not an eclipse's record , but some other phenom- ena inside or outside atmosphere. But many authors affirm that it is a solar eclipse record , al- though their determinations of the era of the occurrence of eclipse are different . In this paper , we agree that the Zhong-kang is a solar eclipse record but we give a new explanation to the words and sentence in the document. The Chinese word '弗' in the sentence is or which is the result of a slip of the pen in some private copies. Perhaps these words might have the same meaning in ancient Chinese . They mean a comet . We do not assume that the two words '房' and '集' in the document having other meanings. Therefore , the way we use to explain the sentence is in agreement with the one used to explain ancient Chinese astronomical phenomena.
出处
《自然科学史研究》
CSCD
1998年第3期250-253,共4页
Studies in The History of Natural Sciences
基金
国家重点项目
关键词
夏代
仲康日食
日食记录
古代日食
ancient eclipse , historical chronology , Earth's rotation
