Bayer: De eclipsi sinicâ

Theophilus Siegfried Bayer: De Eclipsi Sinica Liber singularis Sinorum De Eclipsi Solis quae Christo in crucem acto facta esse creditur : Indicium examinans et momento suo ponderans (Regiomonte: Mart. Hallervordii heredes 1718)

• Digitized: SLUB Dresden (URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-db-id3526807256)
• Bibliographic references: VD18 11436085, BS 1444, Löwendahl 0334
• No copy listed in Wiener China-Bibliographie

Bayer discusses the solar eclipse reported to have been observed in China in 31 BCE and the „darkening of the sky over Golgata‘ (Matthew 27,45/Lucas 23,44. The appendix gives basic instructions on the Chinese language. Lundbæk reads it as a preview of Bayer’s grammar (published in Museum sinicum (1730)). See: Knud Lundbæk, T. S. Bayer (1694-1738). Pioneer sinologist. (London & Malmö: Curzon Press 1986) 31-38, cf. Löwendahl 0334.