Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses

by John Dvorak

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681773309
• ISBN13: 9781681773308
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"