Eclipses
[iˈklipsiz]
Examples
- The theory of lunar eclipses will be understood from Fig. 1, where _S_ represents the sun, _E_ the earth, and _M_ the moon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- At Cairo about the close of the tenth century the first accurate records of eclipses were made, and tables were constructed of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Stars and planets may suffer eclipse, but the principal eclipses are those of the sun and the moon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The average individual does not bother himself much about the calculation of eclipses, or the laws which govern the movements of an erratic comet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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