How did pre-modern societies predict and observe solar eclipses?

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How did pre-modern societies predict and observe solar eclipses?

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Celestial orbits are highly predictable. Astronomers for millennia have track the movements of the moon and planets and eventually noticed the patterns made by their orbits. They could then use those patterns to predict when eclipse events would occur in the future.

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