Eclipse : the celestial phenomenon that changed the course of history / Duncan Steel ; foreword by Paul Davies.

By: Steel, Duncan, 1955-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, 1999Description: xv, 365 p. : ill., map ; 19 cmISBN: 9780747273851Subject(s): Eclipses -- Popular worksDDC classification: 523.78 LOC classification: QB541 | .S65 2001Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1 From the Depths of Time:The Earliest Recorded Eclipses --2 The Heavenly Cycles --3 Making Predictions --4 A Warp in Space --5 The Turbulent Sun --6 Ancient Eclipses and the Length of the Day --7 Eclipses and the Size of the Sun --8 The American Eclipses of 1780 and 1806 --9 The Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 10 The Great New York City Winter Eclipse --11 Nantucket, the Astronomically Blessed --12 Eclipses of the Third Kind --13 and a Fourth --14 Stepping Beyond the Solar System --15 An Eclipse Chaser's Guide --16 An Eclipse Whodunit --Appendix: Calculating Eclipses --Glossary of Astronomical and Scientific Terms --Picture Credits.
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Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 From the Depths of Time:The Earliest Recorded Eclipses --2 The Heavenly Cycles --3 Making Predictions --4 A Warp in Space --5 The Turbulent Sun --6 Ancient Eclipses and the Length of the Day --7 Eclipses and the Size of the Sun --8 The American Eclipses of 1780 and 1806 --9 The Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 10 The Great New York City Winter Eclipse --11 Nantucket, the Astronomically Blessed --12 Eclipses of the Third Kind --13 and a Fourth --14 Stepping Beyond the Solar System --15 An Eclipse Chaser's Guide --16 An Eclipse Whodunit --Appendix: Calculating Eclipses --Glossary of Astronomical and Scientific Terms --Picture Credits.

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