Nov 1872
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Nature, Volume 7, Issue 160, pp. 47 (1872).
Physics
Scientific paper
IN looking through some back numbers of NATURE, I came on a paper by Mr. Hind, in which he examines whether any great eclipse took place at the time of the Crucifixion of Christ. He says that ``although a great total eclipse was visible at Jerusalem in A. D. 29, yet, in the year 33 no eclipse of importance took place.''* Mr. Hind seems to have forgotten that in the opinion of most divines, Christ was born four years before the vulgar era, so that in the year 29 He would have been 33 years old. Remembering this point, it seems highly probable that the account of how ``the sun was turned into darkness, and the moon into blood'' may be a correct account, not only of the occurrence of an eclipse, but of an early observation of the now famous red prominences.
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