日本古代中心日食记录在地球自转研究中的可能作用

POSSIBLE A CTION OF JAPANESE ANCIENT RECORDS OF CENTRAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN STUDY OF THE EARTH'S ROTATION SPEED

本文介绍了利用古代中心日食记录研究地球自转速率变化的原理以及日本古代的中心日食记载，认为日本中心日食记录的年代虽然不太古老，但能为地球自转变化研究提供有价值的信息。

In this paper, the fundamental principle that using ancient records of central solar eclipse to study the variation of the Earth's rotation speed and the Japanese ancient records of central solar eclipses are simply presented. The preliminary study shows that the Japanese ancient records can give valuable information to the study of the Earth's rotation although the ages of the records are not very old.