Mask of the sun : the science, history and forgotten lore of eclipses / John Dvorak.
Mask of the sun : the science, history and forgotten lore of eclipses / John Dvorak.
Mask of the sun : the science, history and forgotten lore of eclipses / John Dvorak.
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Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017.
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LP/523.7/DVO
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432 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017.
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Large print edition.
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Maine
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2017.
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What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust. Eclip...
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Mask of the sun : the science, history and forgotten lore of eclipses / John Dvorak.
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LP/523.7/DVO
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74VKVEgAaeGO
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9781683244028 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1683244028 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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523.7
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991024132249202626
