‘The sun has been eaten’: A brief history of solar eclipses
Astronomy: the corona of the sun, viewed during a total solar eclipse. Process print after a photograph, 1871. Source: Wellcome Collection For most of human history, cosmic events weren’t understood to be the simple result of physics—instead, they were messages from the divine or omens regarding the future. This is especially true for a total […]
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