F. Richard Stephenson

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According to Wikipedia, F. Richard Stephenson is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Durham, in the Physics department and the East Asian Studies department. His research concentrates on historical aspects of astronomy, in particular analyzing ancient astronomical records to reconstruct the history of Earth's rotation. He has an asteroid named after him: 10979 Fristephenson.

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The historical supernovae (2003) (335)
Historical Supernovae and Their Remnants (2002) (236)
Long-term fluctuations in the Earth’s rotation: 700 BC to AD 1990 (1995) (199)
Long-term changes in the rotation of the Earth : 700 B.C. to A.D. 1980 (1984) (155)
Secular solar and geomagnetic variations in the last 10,000 years. Proceedings at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held at Durham, England, 6 - 10 April 1987. (1988) (112)
The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years (1980) (77)
Frequency of nearby supernovae and climatic and biological catastrophes (1977) (54)
Historical Values of the Earth's Clock Error Δ and the Calculation of Eclipses (2004) (54)
A catalogue of auroral observations from China, Korea and Japan (193 B.C. - A.D. 170) (1995) (53)
A revised catalogue of far eastern observations of sunspots (165BC to AD 1918) (1988) (53)
Measurement of the Earth's rotation: 720 BC to AD 2015 (2016) (50)
Solar and auroral evidence for an intense recurrent geomagnetic storm during December in AD 1128 (2001) (44)
Seasonal variation of oriental sunspot sightings (1980) (43)
Applications of early astronomical records (1978) (41)
The accelerations of the earth and moon from early astronomical observations (1975) (35)
Records of Halley's comet on Babylonian tablets (1985) (33)
Simultaneous auroral observations described in the historical records of China, Japan and Korea from ancient times to AD 1700 (2000) (33)
Aurorae: The earliest datable observation of the aurora borealis (2004) (33)
Historical eclipses and the variability of the Earth's rotation (2001) (31)
Proper-motion age dating of the progeny of Nova Scorpii AD 1437 (2017) (31)
An Interpretation of the Pre-Telescopic Sunspot Records from the Orient (1978) (31)
Sporadic aurorae observed in East Asia (2007) (29)
Astronomical evidence relating to the observed 14C increases in A.D. 774–5 and 993–4 as determined from tree rings (2015) (28)
Identification of possible intense historical geomagnetic storms using combined sunspot and auroral observations from East Asia (2005) (27)
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Measurements by Medieval Muslim Astronomers, II: Observations (1997) (24)
Comparison between Oriental and Occidental Sunspot Observations (1996) (24)
Historical evidence concerning the Sun: interpretation of sunspot records during the telescopic and pretelescopic eras (1990) (22)
The supernova of AD 1006 (1977) (22)
On pre-telescopic sunspot records (1989) (21)
The earliest drawing of sunspots (1999) (21)
The remnants of the supernovae of AD 185 and AD 393 (1975) (21)
A field guide to the stars and planets, 2nd Edition: By Donald H. Menzel and Jay M. Pasachoff. Pp. 473. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 1983. Cloth $16.95, Paper $11.95 (1984) (18)
Do the Chinese Astronomical Records Dated AD 776 January 12/13 Describe an Auroral Display or a Lunar Halo? A Critical Re-examination (2019) (18)
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Measurements by Medieval Muslim Astronomers, I: Background (1996) (18)
A Reappraisal of Some Proposed Historical Supernovae (2005) (17)
Astronomical Records on the Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones (1989) (17)
Diameter of the Sun in AD 1715 (1988) (17)
Far Eastern observations of Halley's comet - 240 BC to AD 1368 (1985) (17)
The Danjon limit of first visibility of the lunar crescent (1998) (16)
A catalogue of meteor showers in medieval Arab chronicles (1992) (16)
Precision of Medieval Islamic Measurements of Solar Altitudes and Equinox Times (1995) (15)
Historical Values of the Earth's Clock Error (2005) (15)
Precision of Medieval Islamic Eclipse Measurements (1991) (15)
Oriental Astronomy from GUO Shoujing to King Sejong (1994) (14)
How Reliable are Archaic Records of Large Solar Eclipses? (2008) (14)
History of the Earth’s Rotation Since 700 B. C. (1982) (13)
The solar eclipse observed by Clavius in A.D. 1567 (1997) (13)
Do all galactic supernovae produce long-lived remnants? (1977) (13)
SN 1006: the brightest supernova (2010) (12)
Records of solar eclipses in Arabic chronicles (1989) (12)
Secular and Decade Fluctuations in the Earth’s Rotation: 700 BC — AD 1978 (1982) (12)
Chinese and Korean Star Maps and Catalogs (1994) (12)
The Celestial Sign in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 770s: Insights on Contemporary Solar Activity (2019) (11)
Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation by F. Richard Stephenson (1997) (11)
A Catalogue of “Guest Stars” Recorded in East Asian History from Earliest Times to a.d. 1600 (2009) (11)
Lunar Eclipse Times Predicted by the Babylonians (1997) (10)
Halley's comet in history (1985) (10)
Was the supernova of AD1054 reported in European history? (2003) (10)
The Accuracy of Eclipse Times Measured by the Babylonians (1997) (10)
The Babylonian Unit of Time (1994) (10)
Non-tidal changes in the Earth's rate of rotation as deduced from medieval eclipse observations (1989) (10)
‘Vapours like fire light’ are Korean aurorae (2008) (10)
Astronomical Records in the CH'UN-CH'IU Chronicle (1992) (10)
Pre-Telescopic Astronomical Observations (1978) (9)
Astronomical Verification and Dating of old Testament Passages Referring to Solar Eclipses (1975) (9)
Astronomical Evidence for the Accuracy of Clocks in Pre-Jesuit China (1998) (9)
Nova Scorpius 1437 A.D. is now a dwarf nova, age-dated by its proper motion (2017) (9)
Accuracy of Lunar Eclipse Observations Made by Jesuit Astronomers in China (1995) (9)
The presence of large sunspots near the central solar meridian at the times of modern Japanese auroral observations (2006) (9)
The Babylonian First Visibility of the Lunar Crescent: Data and Criterion (1999) (9)
Atlas of historical eclipse maps (1986) (8)
Seasonal and Secular Variations of the Oriental Sunspot Sightings (1988) (8)
Literary and astronomical evidence for a total eclipse of the sun observed in ancient Ugarit on 3 May 1375 b.c. (1970) (8)
Atlas of historical eclipse maps : East Asia 1500 BC-AD 1900 (1986) (8)
The Earliest Known Record of a Solar Eclipse (1970) (7)
Determination Of ‘Decade’ Fluctuations in the Earth–s Rotation 1620–1978 (1980) (7)
Contemporary geophysics from Babylonian clay tablets (1997) (7)
Addendum 2020 to ‘Measurement of the Earth’s rotation: 720 BC to AD 2015’ (2021) (7)
Early Chinese Observations of Occultations of Planets by the Moon (2012) (7)
The 1874 Transit of Venus and the Popularisation of Astronomy in the USA as Reflected in the New York Times (2011) (7)
The presence of large sunspots near the central solar meridian at the times of major geomagnetic storms (2009) (7)
The supernova of AD 1181 — an update (1999) (7)
Observations of secular and decade changes in the Earth's rotation. (1986) (7)
Investigation of Medieval European Records of Solar Eclipses (2010) (6)
Sunspot Observations on 10 and 11 February 1917: A Case Study in Collating Known and Previously Undocumented Records (2018) (6)
Early observation of the aurora australis: AD 1640 (2009) (6)
Suspected Supernova in A.D. 1181 (1976) (6)
A re-investigation of the 'double dawn' event recorded in the Bamboo Annals (1992) (6)
On the footprints of supernovae in Antarctic ice cores (2004) (6)
Scientific interpretation of historical auroral records (2002) (5)
Eclipse Observations Made by Regiomontanus and Walther (1998) (5)
Accuracy of Solar Eclipse Observations Made by Jesuit Astronomers in China (1995) (5)
The Date of the Book of Joel (1969) (5)
Accuracy of Eclipse Observations Recorded in Medieval Arabic Chronicles (1991) (5)
The Atlas of the Solar System (1984) (5)
Άbdul-Ra\d{h}mān al-Şūfī and His Book of the Fixed Stars: A Journey of Re-discovery (2011) (5)
Catalogue of observations of occultations of stars by the moon for the years 1623 to 1942 and solar eclipses for the years 1621 to 1806 (1981) (5)
An Astronomical Re-Appraisal of the Star of Bethlehem - A Nova in 5 BC (1977) (5)
Thales's Prediction of a Solar Eclipse (1997) (5)
Establishing the case for the Maunder Minimum (1980) (4)
The Accuracy of Tuckerman's Solar and Planetary Tables (1981) (4)
VARIATIONS IN THE EARTH'S CLOCK ERROR ΔT BETWEEN AD 300 AND 800 AS DEDUCED FROM OBSERVATIONS OF SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES (2007) (4)
The Investigation of Stars, Star Clusters and Nebulae in 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s Book of the Fixed Stars (2015) (4)
Historical eclipses and the rotation of the earth (1998) (4)
Astronomical Records in the Samguk Sagi during the Three Kingdoms Period: Earliest Times to A.D. 668 (2014) (4)
Solar Variability from Historical Records (1988) (4)
The new star of AD 1408 - A spurious supernova ? (1986) (4)
The Seungjeongwon Ilgi as a Major Source of Korean Astronomical Records (2011) (3)
Ancient eclipses and the Earth's rotation (2000) (3)
Lunar Eclipse Times Recorded in Babylonian History (1993) (3)
Possible and Suggested Historical Supernovae in the Galaxy (2017) (3)
The Provenance of Early Chinese Records of Large Solar Eclipses and the Determination of the Earth’s Rotation (2018) (3)
Provenance of the cross sign of 806 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a possible lunar halo over continental Europe? (2020) (3)
Angular measurements in Babylonian astronomy (1997) (3)
Where is nova 1437? — Surprises in the space density of cataclysmic variables (1990) (3)
Historical Records of Supernovae (2017) (3)
Historical observations of supernovae (1974) (3)
The identification of early returns of comet Halley from ancient astronomical records. (1990) (3)
Canon of solar and lunar eclipses for Babylon : 750 B.C. - A.D. 1 (1997) (3)
Evidence for solar variability from historical records (1988) (2)
Historical Eclipses and Earth’s Rotation: 700 BC–AD 1600 (2011) (2)
Rome and the Total Solar Eclipse of BC 188 July 17 (2019) (2)
Historical Eclipses and Earth’s Rotation: 700 BC–AD 1600 (2011) (2)
Commission 41: History of Astronomy & the Inter-Union Commission for History of Astronomy (ICHA): (Histoire De L’astronomie) (2002) (2)
Changes in the earth's rate of rotation between A.D. 1672 and 1806 as deduced from solar eclipse timings (1988) (2)
Eclipse Records in Early Korean History: The Koryo-sa (2002) (2)
The Solar Diameter Since 1715 (1988) (2)
Non-tidal changes in the length of the day: 700 BC to AD 1982 (1985) (2)
Tidal Recession of the Moon from Ancient and Modern Data (1981) (2)
Astronomical Assessment of the Solar and Lunar Eclipse Records in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and Its Continuation (2020) (2)
BABYLONIAN TIMINGS OF ECLIPSE CONTACTS AND THE STUDY OF EARTH'S PAST ROTATION (2006) (2)
Giotto's comet: was it the Comet of 1304 and not Comet Halley? (1993) (2)
Four Korean 'guest stars' observed in AD 1592. (1987) (2)
Contributions to the discussion on astronomy in ancient literate societies (1974) (2)
A Lunar Occultation of Mars Observed by Aristotle (2000) (2)
Search for the Remnant of the Nova of 1437 (2008) (2)
Records of lunar eclipses in medieval Arabic chronicles (1997) (2)
Early Chinese Observations and Modern Astronomy (1999) (2)
Eclipses - a tool to measure the Earth's rotation (2001) (1)
Which Historical New Stars were Supernovae (1976) (1)
A Supplement to the Tuckerman tables (1986) (1)
Celestial Observations Recorded in the Samguk Sagi During the Unified Silla Period, AD 668–935 (2015) (1)
Maps and Mapmaking: Celestial East Asian Maps (2008) (1)
The Variation of UT from 700 BC to the Present (1995) (1)
Stellar evolution, 2nd edition: By A. J. Meadows, ix + 171. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1978. Hard cover £7.50, Flexi cover £2.50 (1979) (1)
Non-tidal changes in the length of the day in the historical past. (1985) (1)
Eclipses and the Earth’s Rotation (2018) (1)
A brief contemporary history of the Chinese calendar. (1998) (1)
The Almagest Greek and Roman Occultations Re-Visited (2017) (1)
The Legendary Fourth-Century Total Solar Eclipse in Georgia: Fact or Fantasy? (2015) (1)
The Celestial Sign in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 770s: Insights on Contemporary Solar Activity (2019) (1)
The SN of AD 1054 (2002) (1)
Book Review: The Measurement of Time, Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics (2012) (1)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Observations of eclipses by medieval Arab astronomers (1997) (1)
ASTRONOMICAL DATING OF SEVEN CLASSICAL GREEK ECLIPSES (2020) (1)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Subject index (1997) (1)
A Millennium of shattered stars: our galaxy's historical supernovae (2003) (1)
Book reviewThe Earth's Variable Rotation—Geophysical Causes and Consequences: Kurt Lambeck. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980, 449 pp., U.K. £ 35.00, ISBN 0-521-22769-0 (1981) (1)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Determination of changes in the length of the day (1997) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Other East Asian observations of solar and lunar eclipses (1997) (0)
RECORDS OF SOLAR ECLIPSES IN ARABIC (2016) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Untimed Babylonian observations of lunar eclipses: horizon phenomena (1997) (0)
The Inter-Union Commission for History of Astronomy (2002) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Investigation of Babylonian observations of solar eclipses (1997) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Records of eclipses in ancient European history (1997) (0)
Early Japanese Astronomical Observations (1968) (0)
The solar system: By B. W. Jones. Pp. 336. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1984. Flexicover £11.75 ($19.50) (1984) (0)
Astronomical Beliefs in Medieval Georgia: Innovative Approaches (2014) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Timed Babylonian lunar eclipses (1997) (0)
COMMISSION 41: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY (2007) (0)
Book Review: Chronicles and the Earth's Rotation: Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Accelerations of the Earth and Moon (1977) (0)
Daytime star: The story of our Sun: By Simon Mitton. Pp. 191. Faber, London. 1981. £10.00 (1982) (0)
Earth's Variable Rotation from 750BC to present (2015) (0)
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (2022) (0)
Accuracy of medieval Chinese and Middle-Eastern timings of eclipses (2021) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Variations in the length of the day: a historical perspective (1997) (0)
Language of the Stars: By Zdenek Kopal. Pp. viii + 276. Reidel, Dordrecht. 1979. Cloth Dfl. 120, Paper Dfl.55 (1981) (0)
Sources Of Historical Records of Galactic SNe (2002) (0)
Beyond the Moon: By Paolo Maffei, translated by D. J. K. O'Connell. Pp. x + 377. MIT Press, London. 1978. £8.75 (1979) (0)
The quest for SS433. The Discovery of the Astronomical Phenomenon of the Century: By David H. Clark, Pp. 206. Adam Hilger, Bristol. 1986. 19.95 (1987) (0)
A Suspected Supernova in A . D . I I 8 (2015) (0)
Fotheringham’s 1920 Accelerations of the Sun and Moon Revisited (2020) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: References (1997) (0)
Was the Cas A SN Observed By Flamsteed in AD 1680 (2002) (0)
Tycho's SN Of AD 1572 (2002) (0)
Kepler’s SN OF AD 1604 (2002) (0)
Lunar Lodges in Chinese Astronomy (2008) (0)
Astronomical records from Ancient Babylon (1986) (0)
Applied Historical Astronomy: an Overview (1995) (0)
Commission 41: History Of Astronomy (A Joint Iau-Iuhps Commission): (Histoire De L’Astronomie) (2000) (0)
Book-Review - Application of Early Astronomical Records (1979) (0)
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology (2022) (0)
The large-scale structure of the Universe: By P. J. E. Peebles. Pp. 422. Princeton University Press, New Jersey. 1980. Cloth £16.50, Paper £5.60 (1981) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Eclipse records from medieval Europe (1997) (0)
World Archaeoastronomy, A.F. Aveni (Ed.). Cambridge University Press (1989), 504 (1989) (0)
Book Review: Towards understanding galaxies at large redshift. / Kluwer Academic, 1988 (1989) (0)
Applied Historical Astronomy (2014) (0)
Historical Astronomy of the Caucasus: Sources from Georgia and Armenia (2015) (0)
The SN of AD 1006 (2002) (0)
The SN of AD 1181 (2002) (0)
Kepler's "War on Mars" (2011) (0)
New Stars Which Were Not SNe (2002) (0)
The total solar eclipse of A.D. 1221 and the rotation of the Earth (1992) (0)
Historical Searches for Supernovae (1975) (0)
Astronomical Dating of Babylonian Texts Describing the Total Solar Eclipse of S.E. 175 (2006) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Tidal friction and the ephemerides of the Sun and Moon (1997) (0)
In quest of telescopes: By Martin Cohen, Pp. 131. Cambridge University Press and Sky Publishing Corp., Cambridge, Mass. 1983. £8.50 (1984) (0)
<italic>The Stargazer of Hardwicke: the Life and Work of Thomas William Webb</italic>, edited by Janet and Mark Robinson (2007) (0)
Book reviewAstrophysical techniques: By C. R. Kitchin. Pp. 438. Adam Hilger, Bristol. 1984. Hard cover £40.00, paperback £15.00 (1985) (0)
East Asian astronomical records (2002) (0)
The motion of the Moon: By Alan Cook. Pp. 222. Adam Hilger, Bristol. 1988. £35.00 (1989) (0)
THE 1882 TRANSIT OF VENUS AND THE POPULARIZATION OF ASTRONOMY IN THE USA AS REFLECTED IN<italic>THE NEW YORK TIMES</italic> (2012) (0)
Historical Supernovae (Book Review) (1978) (0)
Book reviewCosmic discovery. The search, scope and heritage of astronomy: By Martin Harwit. Pp. 334. Harvester Press, Brighton. 1981. £12.95 (1982) (0)
SNe, SNRs and Pulsars (2002) (0)
Hunting for Faint (Hibernating?) Cataclysmics (1993) (0)
Monographs on astronomical subjects: 5 the nature and origin of meteorites: By D. W. Sears. Pp. x + 187. Adam Hilger, Bristol. 1978. £13.50 (1980) (0)
The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy: Edited by J. Audouze and G. Israel. Pp. 432. Cambridge University Press. 1985. £29.95 until 31.12.85, then £40.00 (1986) (0)
Probable and Possible SNe Before AD 1000 (2002) (0)
Do the Chinese Astronomical Records Dated AD 776 January 12/13 Describe an Auroral Display or a Lunar Halo? A Critical Re-examination (2019) (0)
The sands of time and tidal friction (1998) (0)
Book-Review - a Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables (1987) (0)
Vistas in astronomy, vol. 21: By Arthur Beer and Peter Beer. Pp. 469. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1979. Annual subscription price, UK and Eire £31.81; Overseas £38.88; Non-subscription price £40.00 (1980) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Chinese and other East Asian observations of large solar eclipses (1997) (0)
On the Eclipse of Hipparchus (2019) (0)
Earth’s Variable Clock (2017) (0)
Question Time (1997) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Pre-telescopic eclipse observations and their analysis (1997) (0)
SN 1006 and other historical supernovae (2006) (0)
Uncovering dubious Viking news (2020) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Solar and lunar eclipses recorded in medieval Arab chronicles (1997) (0)
Astronomy: From the earth to the Universe + teacher's guide: By Jay M. Pasachoff. Pp. 476 and 200. Saunders, Philadelphia. 1979. Paperback £10.50 + Guide free on application (1980) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Untimed data (1997) (0)
Historical Eclipses And Earth's Rotation: Babylonian and Assyrian records of eclipses (1997) (0)
Contemporary astronomy, 2nd edition: By Jay Pasachoff. Pp. 545 + appendices. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia. 1981. $23.95 (Teacher's guide free) (1982) (0)
COMMISSION 41: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY (2008) (0)
Meteorites, Robert T. Dodd. Cambridge University Press, Chichester (1982), 368, £35.00 (1983) (0)

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