附註:Includes index.
Preface -- From the depths of time : the earliest recorded eclipses -- Heavenly cycles -- Making predictions -- Warp in space -- Turbulent sun -- Ancient eclipses and the length of the day -- Eclipses and the size of the sun -- American eclipses of 1780 and 1806 -- Rocky Mountain eclipse of 1878 -- Great New York City winter eclipse -- Nantucket, the astronomically blessed -- Eclipses of the third kind -- And a fourth -- Stepping beyond the solar system -- Eclipse chaser's guide -- Eclipse whodunit.