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A vast, palpable presence seems overwhelming the world. The blue sky changes to gray or dull purple, speedily becoming more dusky, and a death-like trance seizes upon everything earthly.
Mabel Loomis Todd’s poetic and scientifically illuminating 19th-century guide to viewing a total solar eclipse.
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8-9-2017
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Excited for next month’s total solar eclipse? Warm up with astronomer Maria Mitchell’s spectacular account of the Great Eclipse of the 19th century – the world’s first celestial spectator sport – concluding with a clever twist calling for equality in...

Excited for next month’s total solar eclipse? Warm up with astronomer Maria Mitchell’s spectacular account of the Great Eclipse of the 19th century – the world’s first celestial spectator sport – concluding with a clever twist calling for equality in science. 

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7-17-2017