Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 285
ench painter Rochegrosse haspainted a striking picture of the scene (Fig. 75). In the year 413 b. c. the Athenian General Niciasprepared to return to Greece after an expedition toSicily. But, terrified by an eclipse of the Moon, andfearing the malign influence of the phenomenon, he putoff his… … Fig. 75.âBattle between the Medes and Lydians arrestedby an Eclipse of the Sun. 266 THE ECLIPSES you alarmed at a shadow? (This eclipse seems to bethat of August 15, 309, rather than that of March 2, 310-) On June 29, 1033, an epoch at which the approaching end of the world struck terror into all…
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