Today March 20, 0071 As there was going to be an eclipse on his birthday, through fear of a disturbance, as there had been other prodigies, he put forth a public notice, not only that the obscuration would take place, and about the time and magnitude of it, but also the causes that produce such an event. Refers to solar eclipse of AD 45, on the birthday of the Roman Emperor, Claudius. From: Dion Cassius. (Lucies) smiled thereat and said . . . Now grant me that nothing that happens to the Sun is so like its setting as a solar eclipse. You will if you call to mind this conjunction recently which, beginning just after noonday, made many stars shine out from many parts of the sky and tempered the air in the manner of twilight. If you do not recall it, Theon here will cite us Minnermus and Cydias, Archilochus and Stesichorus besides, and Pindar, who during eclipses bewail the brightest star bereft and at midday night falling and say that the beam of the Sun [is sped] the path of shade. Even if the Moon, however, does sometimes cover the Sun entirely, the eclipse does not have the duration or extension; but a kind of light is visible about the rim which keeps the shadow from being profound and absolute. Both these quotations probably refer to a total solar eclipse of 20 March AD 71. and in 0071(?) The Greek philosopher and biographer Plutarch gives a vivid account of a total eclipse in one of his dialogues entitles The Face on the Moon. In this same work, he also makes a brief reference to the corona and in 1140 Afterwards in lent the Sun and the day darkened about the noontide of the day, when men were eating, and they lighted candles to eat by; and that was the 13th of the Calends of April [20 March]. Men were greatly wonder-stricken. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle Refers to the total solar eclipse of 20 March 1140 and in 1140 During this year, in Lent, on the 13th of the Calends of April, at the 9th hour of the 4th day of the week, there was an eclipse, throughout England, as I have heard. With us, indeed, and with all our neighbors, the obscuration of the Sun also was so remarkable, that persons sitting at the table, as it then happened almost everywhere, for it was lent, at first feared that Chaos had come again: afterwards, learning the cause, they went out and beheld the stars around the Sun. It was thought and said by many not untruly, that the King [Stephen] would not continue a year in government. William of Malmesbury Historia Novella, Lib. ii sec.35.Refers to the total solar eclipse of 20 March 1140. and in 1140 (Wednesday) There was an eclipse of the Sun throughout the whole of England, as I have heard.... Willelmi monachi Malmesburiensis Historia Novella, lib II; Potter (1955, pp 42-43) and next yoear in 2015 Next total solar eclipse on Faroe Islands. They had their last one 1954 Jun 30. It will be as well the next one for Spitzbergen which had their last one 1833 Jul 17. I was in Svalbard (Spitsbergen) for the partial solar eclipse in 1993 and Joanne Poitevin and I will be there next year!!! and in 2034 Next total solar eclipse in Afghanistan. The last total solar eclipse there was 1995 Oct 24 which I observed from Sulawesi. It is also Cameroons and Kuweits next one. Their last was both 1952 Feb 25. And it is as well the next one for Iran and Pakistan which had their last in 1999 Aug 11 and which Joanne Poitevin and I observed from Tiran in Iran.
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