Mask of the Sun: The Science, History, and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses

What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust.