Sentences with phrase «history of solar eclipses»
Adapted excerpt from «Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets» by Tyler Nordgren.
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It's hard to think of a time in history in which a solar eclipse would have to compete for a top spot on the news, but here we are.
The rare spectacle of a total solar eclipse has given scientists throughout history fleeting opportunities to delve into everything from the sun's chemistry to Einsteinian relativity to Earth's place in the solar system.
Three new books chronicle the science, history and cultural significance of total solar eclipses.
Al - Hadid activated the clock timed to the August 2017 solar eclipse, honoring the long history of Islamic scholars and astronomers, who established observatories as early as the 9th century C.E..
Numerous artists re-contextualize pictures of solar phenomena from the 19th century to today, tracing the intersecting histories of photography and scientific knowledge, including Simon Starling's video installation Black Drop (2012) and Sarah Charlesworth's multi-photo work Arc of the Total Eclipse, February 26, 1979 (1979).
By that time, she had spent almost two decades collaging found images to expose and manipulate the ideological structures that underpinned photography, crafting series such as «Modern History,» 1977 — 79, for which she excised the text from the front pages of newspapers so that the size and position of the remaining images — of statesmen or a solar eclipse or a masked Sandinista guerrilla — laid bare a visual grammar of power.
Google pulled off one of the best marketing stunts in history on Monday, by taking advantage of the solar eclipse to announce a cool name for Android O. Android 8.0 is now officially >>
Google pulled off one of the best marketing stunts in history on Monday, by taking advantage of the solar eclipse to announce a cool name for Android O. Android 8.0 is now officially known as Oreo, but as awesome as that may be, the sad fact is that most devices will not get it anytime soon.