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By Guy Ottewell

This booklet focuses (in its fifth variation) at the eclipses of 2017, in particular the sun eclipse that may pass the United States from Oregon to South Carolina on August 21; however it is ready all eclipses. It methodically explains why eclipses of the solar and moon occur, their tricky styles in time and area - and why they're so interesting. There are page-spreads, with dynamic globe diagrams, for examples of the most types of eclipse and a number of other curious situations reminiscent of a "broken-ring eclipse", a "geometrically tight eclipse", a "globe-skimming eclipse". wealthy illustrations, together with the 12-page "bead curtain" chart of all eclipses from 1901 to 2116; "Eclipse tales" (with a few cartoons); eclipses of the longer term; tables.

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