Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Archeoastronomy uses the rare times and places of previous total solar eclipses to help us measure history

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par Sarah Sadavoy, Assistant Professor, Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen's University, Ontario

In 648 BCE, the Greek poet Archilochus wrote that, “nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the light of the gleaming Sun.”

Total solar eclipses have fascinated and terrified people for centuries. Today, we know that total solar eclipses — like the upcoming…

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