Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1943
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1943natur.151..111w&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 151, Issue 3821, pp. 111 (1943).
Physics
Scientific paper
ON the few occasions when eclipses of the sun are stated to have been predicted in ancient history, it has generally been found that these took place in the afternoon and could have been predicted as recurrences of the eclipses seen in the morning eighteen years earlier. This argument cannot be applied to the eclipse of August 1, A.D. 45, which certainly took place in the morning at Rome. It could not have been predicted from the eclipse of July 22, A.D. 27, which was not visible in any part of Europe. The assertion is that the Emperor Claudius issued a proclamation stating that the eclipse was expected, with full explanations, so that it should be regarded as a natural event and neither a prodigy nor a bad omen. Both the Emperor and his scientific adviser must have been quite certain of their facts, because they could not take any risk of failure.
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