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“Suddenly the sky collapsed into darkness and a dozen bright stars appeared. In their midst hung an awful, black ball, rimmed in ruby red and surrounded by the doomsday glow of the gray corona. No photograph can do justice to this appalling sight: The dynamic range from bright to dark is too great, and the colors are literally unearthly. (The ionized gas of the solar corona is hotter than anything gets on Earth except, momentarily, in the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, and is thinner than a laboratory vacuum.) I staggered back a few steps, like a drunken man—or like the Medes and Lydians, who stopped fighting and made peace when a solar eclipse interrupted their battle in 585 B.C. Observers more disciplined than myself have taken leave of their senses at just this moment. The astronomer Charles A. Young of Princeton University berated himself for falling into a trance during the 1869 solar eclipse in Iowa and failing to carry out his scientific tasks: “I cannot describe the sensation of surprise and mortification, of personal imbecility and wasted opportunity that overwhelmed me when the sunlight flashed out,” he recalled.”

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Book:Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe

Source: Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe

“When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?”

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Author:Young-Ha Kim

“The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.”

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Book:Flight: A Novel

Source: Flight: A Novel

“Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.”

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Book:Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.”

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Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing”

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Book:Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation between Religion and Philosophy

Source: Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation between Religion and Philosophy

“Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.”