The sun controls the change of the seasons and the continual regeneration of the year, following Nature's practice. He dispels the gloomy aspect of heaven and lightens the clouds over men's minds. The eclipse started with a fissle among a haze of clouds. But then shaped up into a humdinger of a red circle in the sky. Aglaonice the Thessalian , being able to calculate eclipses, claimed power over the Moon and to be able to draw it from Heaven.
Science is, or ought to be, the inspiration for great poetry.
Optical Illusions . . . Timeline - Luis Klemas Eadweard Muybridge . . . More men worship the rising than the setting sun. A theme, some narrative, and a bounty of links.