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What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein s General Theory of 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.
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"...a rich chronicle..." --Nature
"Dvorak is a worthy narrator who has an eye for detail, and does an excellent and inspirational job of portraying the fascination that eclipses hold for those who are lucky enough to witness them." --Books of the Year, BBC Sky at Night Magazine
"...a wealth of interesting titbits and cogent explanations of the mechanics behind these beautiful natural phenomena." --Books of 2017, The Irish Independent
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Originally trained as a lunar scientist, John Dvorak, PhD, spent twenty years operating a large telescope at Mauna Kea for the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. His writing has appeared as cover stories for Scientific American, Astronomy and Physics Today. His books include Earthquake Storms and The Last Volcano, both available from Pegasus Books.
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