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Record W4402693340 · doi:10.1080/23729333.2024.2392970

Solar eclipse maps – historical and contemporary methodologies

2024· article· en· W4402693340 on OpenAlex
Zoltan Andrew Simon

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Cartography · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicHistorical Astronomy and Related Studies
Canadian institutionsRed Deer Polytechnic
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSolar eclipseEclipseHistoryAstronomyPhysics

Abstract

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The first part of this paper examines the history of solar eclipse maps of the world from the seventeenth century to present. It compares the path of centrality (totality or annularity) on a few antique maps with the corresponding path given by modern astronomy programs. The research examines the connections between cartography, astronomy, ancient history, chronology, and archaeology. Since the uncertainties of Delta-T are accountable for the accuracy of eclipse maps, special attention has been devoted to ancient key eclipses. Through the identification of the earliest solar eclipse traditions in the Near East, it recommends new chronological anchors to help astronomers, mapmakers, and editors of historical atlases. It suggests the acceptance of four eclipses of the Long Chronology between June 2353 B.C. and February 1659 B.C. for the rate of Earth’s rotation. Optimal combined selection of ancient historical eclipse records and traditions is presented, to obtain the best-fitting curve of Delta-T (clock-time error) that is the key for the accuracy of solar eclipse maps. Several early historical solar eclipses are identified with high probability.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.841
Threshold uncertainty score0.297

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it