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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