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Solar Eclipses In History

Both lunar and solar eclipses have provided the basis for superstitions as well as a challenge for scientists and astronomers throughout the ages as they tried to predict when and where each eclipse would occur. EARLY RECORDINGS For ancient cultures, solar eclipses were important and noteworthy events, with the first recorded descriptions of them happening more than 2,000 years before the Christian era (B.C.E.) in China.

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