Zirker Jack B

Total eclipses of the sun / J.B. Zirker. - [Expanded ed.] - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995. - xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Princeton science library .

Includes index.

1. Thirty Centuries of Eclipse Watching -- 2. Eclipses Explained -- 3. Time, Tide, and Gravity -- 4. The Chromosphere -- 5. The Solar Corona -- 6. Interplanetary Dust -- 7. The Earth's Atmosphere -- 8. Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere -- 9. A Test of General Relativity -- 10. "I Got Rhythm, You Got Rhythm" -- 11. Future Experiments: Is the Sun Shrinking? -- 12. The Great Hawaiian Eclipse.

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Solar eclipses
Solar eclipses--1991

QB541

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