THE SOLAR CORONA.
Photographed during the eclipse of June 8, 1918, at Green River, Wyoming, by the Mount Wilson Observatory Expedition.
To the ancients they were without the order of nature, and in Rome, at one time, it was blasphemy, and punishable by law, to talk publicly of their being due to natural causes.
The Chaldeans believed the sun and moon to be black on the hidden side, and upon the displeasure of the Gods, the darkened side was turned to the earth thus causing an eclipse.
SUCCESSIVE STAGES OF AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, RECORDED WITH THE AID OF A KODAK.
Photographed by Edith Carlson at Palo Alto, California, September 10, 1923.
Many people among the European nations covered their wells and fountains for fear that the water would become contaminated by the poisonous, mists which arose during an eclipse. The notion was probably due to the fact that the drop in temperature is often accompanied by a fall of dew.