LITTMAN TOTALITY - ECLIPSES

In its second edition, Totality assesses the entire history of solar eclipses, 6 minutes at a time. Although these events are brief, they have frightened and amazed humans for centuries. The rocks at Stonehenge might have been use to predict such anevent. The cease-fire between the Lydians and the Medes on the battlefields of Asia Mnor in 585 B.C. also resulted when the moon blotted out the sun. Astronomers Littmann, Willcox, and Espenak examine solar eclipses from this historical perpective and offer the relevant astrodynamics. They also offer escoteric yet useful facts, including maps for every solar eclipse through 2020, safeviewing procedures plus a chapte about the upcoming Aug. 11, 1999, eclipse.