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Book Synopsis Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses by : John Dvorak
Download or read book Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have been thought of as harbingers of evil as well as a sign of the divine. Eclipses—one of the rarest and most stunning celestial events we can witness here on Earth—have shaped the course of human history and thought since humans first turned their eyes to the sky. What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein’s General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust. Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan “Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope’s death. In Mask of the Sun, acclaimed writer John Dvorak the importance of the number 177 and why the ancient Romans thought it was bad to have sexual intercourse during an eclipse (whereas other cultures thought it would be good luck). Even today, pregnant women in Mexico wear safety pins on their underwear during an eclipse. Eclipses are an amazing phenomena—unique to Earth—that have provided the key to much of what we now know and understand about the sun, our moon, gravity, and the workings of the universe. Both entertaining and authoritative, Mask of the Sun reveals the humanism behind the science of both lunar and solar eclipses. With insightful detail and vividly accessible prose, Dvorak provides explanations as to how and why eclipses occur—as well as insight into the forthcoming eclipse of 2017 that will be visible across North America.
Download or read book Sun Moon Earth written by Tyler Nordgren and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With beautiful illustrations and a detailed map, Sun Moon Earth has everything you need to get ready for the next solar eclipse. On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: a total eclipse of the sun. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer Tyler Nordgren illustrates how this most seemingly unnatural of natural phenomena was transformed from a fearsome omen to a tourist attraction. From the astrologers of ancient China and Babylon to the high priests of the Maya, Sun Moon Earth takes us around the world to show how different cultures interpreted these dramatic events. Greek philosophers discovered eclipses' cause and used them to measure their world and the cosmos beyond. Victorian-era scientists mounted eclipse expeditions during the age of globe-spanning empires. And modern-day physicists continue to use eclipses to confirm Einstein's theory of relativity. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically written, Sun Moon Earth is the ideal guide for all eclipse watchers and star gazers alike.
Book Synopsis Empire and the Sun by : Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Download or read book Empire and the Sun written by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomy was a popular and important part of Victorian sciences, and British astronomers carried telescopes to remote areas in India, North America, and Caribbean and Pacific islands to watch solar eclipses. This book tells the full story of these expeditions: the long periods of planning and financing, and the day-to-day work of getting to field sites, setting up camp, and preparing, observing, and recording eclipses.
Download or read book Suns Eclipsed written by Cameron Cooper and published by Stories Rule Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s not an impossible mission. It’s an insane one. Ten people. Eriumans, Karassians, Free-Staters. None of them armed with anything more lethal than a single repaired and unreliable one-handed ghostmaker and a handful of bladed weapons, all of them with mental instabilities from years of brain wipes and memory manipulations. Worse, Bellona Cardenas is uncertain of their loyalties. Ten fragile people to infiltrate the most secure facility in the Republic. So begins Suns Eclipsed, the second book in the Indigo Reports space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper. The Indigo Reports series: 0.5 Flying Blind 1.0 New Star Rising 1.1 But Now I See 2.0 Suns Eclipsed 3.0 Worlds Beyond Space Opera Science Fiction Novel __ Praise for Suns Eclipsed: God I love these characters, a motley crew of fantastic beings. I am loving this series! The characters are complex and interesting while the action has lots of unexpected twists and turns. Not since I first read Anne McCaffrey’s Ship Series have I enjoyed a SF series more. Cameron again proves Robert Heinlein’s words “Specialization is for insects”, as he delights us with his storytelling talent across multiple genres. The action never really stops as the reader is pulled through the book at breakneck speed! I am continually amazed at the imagination of this author. By the time I finished the book all I kept thinking was Nooooooooooooooooo! I have to wait till the next book comes out to be able to continue reading the story. A motley crew, an impossible mission and a wack-a-doodle, vengeful mother combine to give us another exciting story. A kick-ass adventure set in space, with a scope as beautiful as the stars in the galaxies. I thoroughly enjoyed it! This is meatier, brain engaging and seat-belt fastening. Fast-paced adventure full of futuristic elements, all too human emotions and developments you will never see coming. A wonderful follow up to the previous book in this series. The story just keeps getting better and better. __ Cameron Cooper is the author of the Imperial Hammer series, an Amazon best-selling space opera series, among others. Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape. Cameron was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others. Peter F. Hamilton and John Scalzi are contemporary heroes. An Australian Canadian, Cam lives near the Canadian Rockies.
Book Synopsis Total Eclipses of the Sun by : Mabel Loomis Todd
Download or read book Total Eclipses of the Sun written by Mabel Loomis Todd and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869 by : United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office
Download or read book Reports of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869 written by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869, Made by Parties Under the General Direction of J.H. Coffin by : John Huntington Crane Coffin
Download or read book Reports of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869, Made by Parties Under the General Direction of J.H. Coffin written by John Huntington Crane Coffin and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August, 7, 1869 by : United States Naval Observatory
Download or read book Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August, 7, 1869 written by United States Naval Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869 by :
Download or read book Reports of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869 written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eclipse of the Sun by : Michael D. O'Brien
Download or read book Eclipse of the Sun written by Michael D. O'Brien and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the second in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government. Set in the near future, the story describes the rise of a police state in North America in which every level of society is infected with propaganda, confusion and disinformation. Few people are equipped to recognize what is happening because the culture of the Western world has been deformed by a widespread undermining of moral absolutes. Against this background, the Delaney family of Swiftcreek, British Columbia, is struck a severe blow when the father of the family, the editor of a small newspaper which dares to speak the truth, is arrested by the dreaded Office of Internal Security. His older children flee into the forest of the northern interior, accompanied by their great-grandfather and an elderly priest, Father Andrei. Their little brother Arrow also becomes a fugitive as the government seeks to remove any witnesses, and eradicate all evidence of its ultimate goals. As O'Brien draws together the several strands of the story into a frightening yet moving climax, he explores the heart of growing darkness in North America, examining events which have already occurred. The reader will take away from this disturbing book a number of urgent questions: Are we living in the decisive moment of history? How dire is our situation? Do we live in pessimistic dread, or a Christian realism founded on hope? This is a tale about the victory of the weak over the powerful, courage over terror, good over evil, and, above all, the triumph of love.
Book Synopsis Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869 by : B. F. Sands
Download or read book Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7, 1869 written by B. F. Sands and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annular Eclipse of the Sun, March 15-16, 1885 by : Allan D. Brown
Download or read book Annular Eclipse of the Sun, March 15-16, 1885 written by Allan D. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Total Eclipse of the Sun written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sun in Eclipse by : Michael Maunder
Download or read book The Sun in Eclipse written by Michael Maunder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains everything the amateur astronomer needs to know about eclipses, including: what to look for, when and how to observe, what equipment is needed, and even how to mount an eclipse expedition.
Book Synopsis Total Eclipse of the Sun, July 9, 1945 by : United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office
Download or read book Total Eclipse of the Sun, July 9, 1945 written by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 20, 1947 by : United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office
Download or read book Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 20, 1947 written by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Total Eclipses of the Sun by : Jack B. Zirker
Download or read book Total Eclipses of the Sun written by Jack B. Zirker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eclipses have captured attention and sparked curiosity about the cosmos since the first appearance of humankind. Having been blamed for everything from natural disasters to the fall of kings, they are now invaluable tools for understanding many celestial as well as terrestrial phenomena. This clear, easy-to-understand guide explains what causes total eclipses and how they can be used in experiments to examine everything from the dust between the planets to general relativity. A new chapter has been added on the eclipse of July 11, 1991 (the great Hawaiian eclipse). Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
