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Douglas J. Keenan argues that astro-historiographic chronologies of early China are unfounded for two main reasons: 1) Records of astronomical events like solar eclipses and five-planet conjunctions that chronologies rely on are shown to be unreliable or did not actually occur. For example, a record of a "double dawn" used to date a solar eclipse to 899 BC likely did not describe the eclipse. 2) Even if the records were reliable, the types of events used often occurred frequently enough that they do not

Author
ursalibaba
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