Editing Nicephorus Gregoras (section)

=== Astronomy ===

Gregoras is known to have predicted with exactitude a total solar eclipse on 16 July 1330 <ref>https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/1301-1400/1330-07-16.gif</ref> using the [[Handy Tables]] and [[Almagest]] from [[Ptolemy]]<ref>J. Mogenet, A. Tihon, R. Royez, A. Berg, ''Nicéphore Grégoras - Calcul de l’éclipse de soleil du 16 juillet 1330'', Corpus des astronomes byzantins, I, Gleben, 1983, Introduction, p. 11 {{ISBN|978-9070265342}}.</ref> and thus since Antiquity.