Description
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Contact One: An Introduction to Solar Eclipses
- 1 Colossal Celestial Spectacles
- 2 Watching People Watching Eclipses
- 3 What You See and Why You See It
- Contact Two: Eclipses in the Ancient World
- 4 Eclipse Computer Stonehenge
- 5 Babylonian Decryptions
- 6 Greek Science
- 7 The Crucifixion Darkness
- 8 Ancient Chinese Secrecy
- 9 Maya Prediction
- 10 Aztec Sacrifice
- Totality: Eclipses in the Modern Age
- 11 The Rebirth of Eclipse Science in Islam and Europe
- 12 The New England Eclipse of 1806
- 13 Expedition to Pike’s Peak, 1878
- 14 New York’s Central Park, 1925
- Contact Three: Lessons from Eclipses
- 15 The Eclipse as Cartographer and Timekeeper
- 16 Zoologists Chasing Shadows
- Contact Four: Personal Eclipses
- 17 Eclipses in Culture
- Afterword: A Confession
- Appendix: A Brief Chronology of Solar Eclipses
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
