How would you describe a solar eclipse as a person from the middle ages and a person from the Renaissance?

Question by bebe: How would you describe a solar eclipse as a person from the middle ages and a person from the Renaissance?



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Answer by Anne MarieYou would describe it much as people do today.

In the Middle Ages, people understood that the world is round and that the moon orbits the earth and gets between us and the sun, and vice versa.

In fact, the true cause of solar eclipses, the moon, was already well understood in both the west and China long before the time of Jesus. Thales of Miletus accurately predicted the eclipse of May 28, 585 BC.

Stories of dragons eating the sun and primitive tribesmen falling under the spell of some great white explorer who threatens to extinguish the sun are mostly fictional. For more than 2,500 years educated people have understood the cause of eclipses and knew how to predict them.

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