King Narai and seventeenth-century Jesuit astronomy in Siam. 2: The lunar eclipse of 11 December 1685
Abstract
In his quest to expose Siam to Western culture and technology King Narai invited a delegation of French missionary-astronomers from Ayutthaya to join him and his court astrologers and observe the 10-11 December 1685 lunar eclipse from near Lop Buri. In this poster we review this eclipse and the Jesuit astronomers who observed it, and we note the seminal role that this eclipse played in the development of scientific astronomy in Siam.
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