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Odysseus wrote:

Paul Schlyter wrote:

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Our last total solar eclipse here was on 3 May 1715 (Gregorian date) - it
gave us a nice 4 minute totality (which is really long for our high
latitude) and also caused a great scandal: all the almanacs published in
Stockholm for 1715 failed to predict the totality in Stockholm, which thus
came quite unexpected! Much because of that the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences was given the exclusive right to publish almanacs here from 1747
and during the next 225 years - not until 1973 were others again allowed
to publish almanacs in Sweden.

What was the nature of the error that caused the missed prediction?
Miscalculation or a methodological problem?

It's a bit hard to find out now of course, 290 years after it happened...
But the most likely reason is incompetence - these almanacs weren't
published by astronomers.

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