Mask of the sun the science, history, and forgotten lore of eclipses
What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- New York, 1925
- The heretic and the Pope
- The invisible planets of Rahu and Ketu
- Saros and the substitute king
- Measuring the world
- The waste of yin
- A request to the curious
- The annulus at Inch Bonney
- A simple truth of nature
- Eclipse chasers
- Keys and kettledrums
- The Crucifixion and the Concorde
- Einstein's error
- The glorious corona
- Illinois, 2017
- An eclipse primer.
