Total Eclipses of the Sun
J. B. Zirker

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface to the Paperback Edition
	Preface
1	Thirty Centuries of Eclipse Watching	1
2	Eclipses Explained	28
3	Time, Tide, and Gravity	41
4	The Chromosphere	56
5	The Solar Corona	76
6	Interplanetary Dust	106
7	The Earth's Atmosphere	129
8	Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere	148
9	A Test of General Relativity	166
10	"I Got Rhythm, You Got Rhythm"	183
11	Future Experiments: Is the Sun Shrinking?	190
12	The Great Hawaiian Eclipse	197
	Postscript	213
	Glossary	215
	Index	219

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