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As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse: Billy Collins’s Delightful Ode to Gratitude
…with a funny and poignant meditation on the personal gravity of gratitude and why being grateful is “one of the most powerful things that any one person can do.”
May 29, 1919: The Animated Story of How Eddington’s Historic Eclipse Expedition Confirmed Relativity, Catapulted Einstein into Celebrity, and United Humanity
How one of humanity’s greatest scientific achievements became one of humanity’s most humane moments, uniting a divided world under the same sky after its darkest hour.
What to Look for During a Total Solar Eclipse: Mabel Loomis Todd’s Poetic 19th-Century Guide to Totality, with Help from Emily Dickinson
“A vast, palpable presence seems overwhelming the world. The blue sky changes to gray or dull purple, speedily becoming more dusky, and a death-like trance seizes upon everything earthly.”
The World’s First Celestial Spectator Sport: Astronomer Maria Mitchell’s Stunning Account of the 1869 Total Solar Eclipse
“All nature rejoiced, and … we rejoiced with Nature.”
Cement Eclipses: Tiny Street Art Sculptures by Isaac Cordal
What tiny people have to do with the sleepwalking hypnotism of urban routine.
The Sun, the Shadow, and the Unselved Self: Helen Macdonald on Eclipses as an Antidote to Ideologies of Otherness and a Portal to Human Connection
“A total eclipse wreaks havoc on your sense of self, on rational individuality.”
Darkness in the Celestial Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf’s Arresting 1927 Account of a Total Solar Eclipse
“We had seen the world dead. This was within the power of nature.”
Into the Chute of Time: Annie Dillard on the Stunning Otherworldliness of a Total Solar Eclipse
“What you see in a total eclipse is entirely different from what you know.”
How to Watch the Un-sunlike Sun: Solar Eclipse Tips from Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell
“It is always difficult to teach the man of the people that natural phenomena belong as much to him as to scientific people.”
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