This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...with the expedition undertaken by the Athenian fleet against the Lacedemonians. The date answers to the second year of the eighty-seventh Olympiad, the first of the Peloponnesian war. Thucydides, who was contemporary, says the stars were seen in the middle of the day. According to Plutarch, in his Life ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...with the expedition undertaken by the Athenian fleet against the Lacedemonians. The date answers to the second year of the eighty-seventh Olympiad, the first of the Peloponnesian war. Thucydides, who was contemporary, says the stars were seen in the middle of the day. According to Plutarch, in his Life of Pericles, the commander of the vessel was greatly alarmed at the darkness, which took place as he was on the point of setting sail; but the Athenian General was luckily able to explain the phenomenon, which he illustrated in a manner that seems to have allayed the fears of the captain, and so prevented the delay of his expedition. The total eclipse, known as that of Agathocles, which occurred on the 15th of August, B.C. 309, was also investigated by Mr. Baily. In this case neither the date nor the locality were open to much uncertainty, and the phenomenon consequently appeared to him to afford a favourable opportunity for checking the solar and lunar tables, instead of using them as the means of settling the date and limits of the eclipse. Diodorus Siculus says the stars were seen, so that no doubt can exist as to the totality of the Eclipse; but Mr. Baily found an irreconcilable difference between the tables and the historical statement, a space of about 180 geographical miles appearing between the Reckoning according to the manner of astronomers. most southerly position that we can assign to the fleet of Agathocles, and the limit of the total phase. To obviate this discordance, it is only necessary to suppose an error of about three minutes of arc in the computed distance of the centres of Sun and Moon at conjunction, a very inconsiderable correction for a date anterior to the epoch of the tables by more than twenty-one centuries....
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