I had thought about travelling East, to see the eclipse, but it now seems unlikely I will. That doesn't mean it will be a lost event, there will be lots of pictures, and maybe its not the best idea to put myself in the path of a shadow that historically foretold doom and drove men mad. I often wonder about the moon, and the eclipses, and I am sure there have been countless men for ages who looked up at the moon, and saw it eclipsing. And whatever they thought about it, they now carried that knowledge, and passed it on to others. That he moon sometimes goes red, or disappears. Fascinating stuff, truly. I used to think Space was all about the future but then I began studying history and I realized... its all so old. We are just looking at the stars in the sky, when we look at the ideas from the past. Most of it is in darkness, lost. And what small glimpses we can observe, is a faint light of whatever truth is behind it. I hope you are able to enjoy the experience, and I look forward to more posts about it! !PIZZA
There must be at least one good book out there about specific solar eclipses in history, and people's reactions to them. I had a bit of a search of Wikipedia and found one article about Historically significant lunar eclipses. No corresponding article for solar eclipses though, which is kind of odd. Oh well.
Something interesting about the stars, you might already know, but we see them as they were in the past. This aligns with what you say about it all being so old. If a star is 10 lightyears away from Earth, for example, we're seeing the light as it shone 10 years ago when we stargaze. Literally we are looking in to the past. 10 lightyears is pretty near compared to the average for stars, as well.
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