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There were numerous records of solar eclipse in China from the eighth century BC to the fifteenth century AD. Because these records are concise and formalized, I have arranged 938 items into a computer-readable table called ‘‘The table of historic Chinese regular records of solar eclipse’’. In this paper, I explain the structure of the table with a preliminary analysis and statistics of the historical records. To receive the table itself, please request it at liucy@ntsc.ac.cn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deals with the Korean adaptation of the Chinese-Islamic astronomical tables. Analysis of the problem with the determination of time-interval between a given day and the epoch; Discussion on the modification of various constants; Description of the star catalogue.