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AN ANCIENT OCCULTATION OF JUPITER.—In Roger de Hoveden's Chronicle, under the year 756, we read:—“Eodem anno Balthere anachorita vitam sanctorum secutus est, et migra-vit ad Dominum; Luna autem sanguineo rabore superducta octavo Kalendas Decembris quindecima setate, id e t plena, sicque paulatim decrescentibus tenebris ad lucem pristinain pervenit; nam, mirabiliter, ipsam lunam sequente lucida Stella et pertranseunte tanto spatio earn antecedebat illuminatam, quanto sequebatur, antequam esset obscurata.”(Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Hovedene, cdited by William Stubbs, M.A., vol. i. p. 7.) Simeon of Durham records the phenomenon in similar terms, and also dates it in A.D. 756; but this has been long known to be a mistake, the eclipse of the moon, to which reference is made, having taken place on the evening of November 23, A.D. 755.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 31, 370 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031370a0
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