Solar Eclipse - Myth, Legend And Reality - E-book - ePub

Ancient humans must have found eclipses unnerving and unpredictable. Periodically, they are not easy to understand because of their complex nature. It is both dramatic and transient when a solar eclipse takes place. Due to diffraction on the moon's surface and its jaggedness, a solar eclipse appears to remove the sun from the sky as the sun disappears. However this simple explanation has fascinated humans for thousands of years.
Shrouded in mystery it is both, a connection to the heavens but what also makes us feel uniquely human.