Turn around, bright eyes! In anticipation of the Great North American eclipse coming up on Monday, April 8, 2024, we're scooting in front of this topic like the moon in front of the sun. We're looking at some of the earliest record-keeping of solar eclipses, some eclipse history (eclipstory!) and some mythology and cosmology around the phenomenon. Plus...a truly delightful fact about the song Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-folklore-tells-us-about-eclipses-180964488/


https://www.jstor.org/stable/15768


https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001276245


https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/how-did-the-ancients-predicted-eclipses-the-saros-cycle/


https://ctext.org/shang-shu/punitive-expedition-of-yin


https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006543


https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_11621/?st=gallery


https://www.jstor.org/stable/671227


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