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Albert, Prince 53
Alexander the Great 61-3
Angstrom, Anders 146
Annalen der Physik 174, 184
Antiochus 1 63
Aristarchus of Samos 63
Assurbanipal, King 40, 51
Assyrian empire 42-3, 49-52, 59. 111-13
Babylonian empire 40-67,71
Baily’s beads 8-10, 152, 206
Baily, Francis 151-3
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm 136
Bunsen, Robert 148
celestial sphere 15-18, 64
Chaldean dynasty 51-6, 59, 62
Chandrasekhar, S. 196
Comte, Auguste 144, 150, 165
Cooke, Thomas 161
corona 9-11, 154, 206-7, 209-10
Crookes, William 165
Crump, Thomas 91
Cyclopedia (Chambers’) 127
Cyrus the Great 62
Daguerre, Louis 153, 156
de Sitter, Willem 186, 191, 197
diamond ring 10, 206
Dyson, Sir Frank 186-7, 188
Eclipsareon, The 127-9
eclipse blindness 204-06
eclipse websites 134-6
ecliptic limits 32-6, 74, 77-86
Eddington, Arthur 172, 177, 185-97
Einstein, Albert 172-97
Enuma Anu Enhil (‘When Heaven and Earth …’) 42
Espenak, Fred 134-5
Eudemus of Rhodes 103
Freundlich, Erwin 184
George, King 126
Gingerich, Owen 121-2, 125
Grossman, Marcel 173, 182
Halley, Edmond 53, 71, 118-26, 130, 141
Hammurabi dynasty 42-3, 48
Harrison, John 125-6
Hawkins, Gerald 97-9
Herodotus 101-6, 110, 114
Hind, J. R. 155
Histories, The (Herodotus) 103-5
Hooke, Robert 118, 120
Hoyle, Fred 99
Janssen, Jules 159-60, 162-4, 166
Kepler, Johannes 27-9, 36-7, 119, 130
Kirchhoff, Gustav 148-51, 156-8
Laertius, Diogenes 106
Life of Pericles (Plutarch) 109-10
Lockyer, Sir Norman 160-9
Logan, James 124-5
Lorentz, Hendrik 191, 197
lunar eclipse 18-21, 58, 71
Magna Carta 53
Martin, Thomas-Henri 106
Maskelyne, Nevil 125
Mayer, Tobias 126
Mosely, Henry 187-8
Nabuchadnezzar 11 63
NASA 134, 136
Neccho, Pharaoh 111
Neugebauer, Otto 106
Newton, Isaac 29-30, 53, 71, 118-21, 145, 178, 183, 189, 190, 193, 196
‘On the Motion of Bodies’ (Newton) 120
Palitzsch, Johann 121
Panchenko, Dmitri 106-8, 110, 114
Perseid meteor shower 209
Plato 64
Plutarch 109-10
Principia (Newton) 120
Ptolemy 52, 64
Pythagoras 103
Ramsey, William 165
Richard the Lionheart 53
Rosenthal-Schneider, Ilse 191
Royal Astronomical Society 186, 188, 193
Royal Observatory, Greenwich 122, 177, 186
Rudolph 11, Emperor 130
saros cycle 36, 74-91, 111-13,197,200-217
Spielberg, Stephen 10
Stephenson, F. R. 66
Stonehenge 94-101, 114
Stonehenge Decoded 97
Suidas 71
Tetrabiblos (Ptolemy) 64
Thales 94-5, 101-15
Thomson, J. J. 193-4, 196
Thucydides 101, 109
Timaeus (Plato) 64
total eclipses 585 BC 104-5
136 BC 65-7
1868 158-60
1919 188-97
1925 130-3
1991 7-11,88-9, 134
1999 200-218
US Naval Observatory 134
Van Den Bergh 88
von Fraunhofer, Joseph 145-9, 151, 158, 167
von Oppolzer, Theodor 85
Whiston, William 124-6
Williams, Samuel 126
Wren, Christopher 118, 122
Xenophanes 106
Xerxes 105
zodiac 56-7, 60, 64