Keyword: total solar eclipse
Diamond Ring in the Sun
21.06.2001
A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s
27.01.2008
21.06.2001
Today, earthbound skygazers can celebrate a solstice, a new Moon, the closest approach of planet Mars since 1988 ... oh yes, and a total eclipse of the Sun, the first total solar eclipse of the third millennium.
A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s
27.01.2008
Is this painting the earliest realistic depiction of a total eclipse of the Sun? Some historians believe it is. The above painting was completed in 1735 by Cosmas Damian Asam, a painter and architect famous in early eighteenth century Germany.
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